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Title: Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Sri Lanka India
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in the morning, long be-fore daylight, I heard the voices of a choir of young natives,who had come within our compound, and were doing all in theirpower to remind us of the joy of Christmas-tide. These wereChristians, but there were many who performed little offices ofrespect for the day who were not Christians, and whose1 wholelife, as either Mohammedans or Hindus, had been a violationof Christian teaching. They were tradesmen, servants, andothers, all in some secular way related to the Christians andEnglish-speaking people of Cawnpore. In the years past theyhad caught the meaning of the Anglo-Saxons love of the da v.They had observed the gladness. They had seen the happychildren, and had learned why they valued the day. They knewit was the best and gladdest of all the year in the tar oil lands37* 582 INBIKA. of Christendom. Hence they were intent to do what wouldplease the English-speaking people about them. Thus they be-came happy and great-hearted too, as another Christmas dawned.
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THE SUCCESSFUL ROBBER. They came with gifts of fruit and other trifles, to make evenhappier the English homes in Cawnpore. I went with Mr. McGrew to a place where materials werecollecting and work was beginning for a new missionary build- CHRISTMAS IN CAWNPORE.—CHRISTIAN WORKERS. 583 ing. In two minutes the turbaned old Dative ran off into thegrove and brought back fresh oranges, plantains, and other fruits,and lavished them upon us. Mrs. Neeld was receiving dishesand baskets of fruit and flowers, and other things, all day, borneby dark Hindu and Mohammedan hands. A close criticismwould say that these people expected a full return in presentsfor all these things. Suppose they did. What if they thoughtthat in one way and another they would get back tenfold forall thev had brought? Even this was a tribute to the Anelo-Saxons sense of gratitude. It was much for even a pagan tosee the English gladness on this day, and to recognize it. JI iscentury and a half of contact with Anglo-Saxons

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