Hindu Widows by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 13, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 18.

Hindu Widows

By Editor

WE hope that our readers will not fail to read "Hindu Widows," found on another page; and try to realize, if they can, that some such custom as this might have been prevalent among us had it not been for Christianity and its educating, humanizing, elevating influences. We often take the glory of all our good deeds, or lack of extremely bad ones, to ourselves; but if we had come up in the darkness of heathenism, we too would have been heathens. It is only because the light and liberty and beauty of Christianity has fallen upon the nations of the Orient, that makes these terrible customs look so dark. And how it ought to stir every true Christian to do all in his power to reach with the light of the Word those who are in darkness.