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Do the Brahmans and other persons who perform the Hinddt temple service ever teach righteousness, like the Christian gurus? Do devil-dancers ever te ach people propriety of conduct® There are plenty of religious beggars wandering about from village to village in a sort of faney dress, collecting offerings, and not unfrequently cheating the poor innocent people out of their money, but has any of those persons ever been known to assem le all classes of people ail teach them the way to beeome virtnous* Never. Instructors of the people in righteousness are no where to be met with amongst 1lindis.
In the villazes inhabited by worshippers of Siva and Vishny, whose dwy ds it to teach morality and to ref the fmmoral© No one ean be fond who will admit ot » be any dary of hiso There are people in every viliare win are hound to perform varions services fur the ecrnwon advan of the inhabitants, and there are Fnam bands set apart for the support of those who perforin these sorviees© but owe never mec in sich villares with persons who are bound by the du of thelr otliee to promote virtiee ard peace amongst the imhabitauts by their exhortatims, In heathen, or Dindid, villases the voune men are accustomed to wand ov whout my adleness; the wicked wo seduce the simple, the quarrelome to stir up suwife, the avaricious to plunder helpless widows, Every body 1s customed to do as he pleases. There is no one 1 restrain them or to reason with them.
You are all very careful to prevent fire and water from calming the mastery and doing damage. You keep the water of your tanks under restraint by means of a shee. to prevent it from ruining your ticlds. You keep fire under