THE CROSS IN INDIA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 8, 13 June 1884, Page 5

THE CROSS IN INDIA.

(From the Indo-European Correspondence.) Quoth our Methodist contemporary : « One of the first objects which visitors entering tha Exhibition passed was a group of figW some of them life-size, representing our Saviour, and a few others the New Testament characters. One representation, of our Saviour upon the cross, showed thewounJs in His hands and feet, with tie red blood drops trickling down as if the awful act of suffering were transpiring before the very gaze of. the spectators. Crowds of natives, especially of women.'could be seen all day long gazin< upo,i the figure, and v i they explained to one another the meaning of the representation, the story of Jesus dying for fie world was told over aad over again. Strangely enough, our attention was first drawn to this ngure by hearing of the impression it had made upon some Hindoo women. One of them, in telling a zenana visitor of it, said, 'As I looked at ie and thought of how Jesus had suffered for us, I could not keep back my tears." Thousands upoa thousands have thus, in the most unexpected way, heard the story of Jesus and His love " Our much esteemed Doctor has evidently penned this in one of tecles P moods, when he had not put on his anti- Popish specIf thosa sacred figures "in a proFane exhibition were so suggesT hTI Hlslov V why do they turn out to be rank idolatry $£ XLl^lZS them up in church as mere «* "-J O Doctor So-and-so ! if you could only outgrow the incubus of three score years prejudice, how differently you wojU think of Catholicism and Catholics J For .piety is what we think no one would hesitate to give you credit for.