The Holy City - Benares #249175

Varied would be the nature of the sights that would meet your eyes in this ancient city — sublime and fantastic, elevating as well as queer. Advance with a scoffing predisposition and a supercilious contempt for what you may not understand, and things will take complexion from your temperament, and enough will there be for affording you amusement and means of cavilling and reviling. But why leave the honey and seek the sores which incidences of time must inevitably cause? Approach rather with a feeling of respect and in a spirit of considerate svmpathy making due allowances for the deformities of age, and with an earnest desire for peering into the inner nature of what you see, and enough shall you find for reflection, enlightenment and enjoyment. The apparent freckles and pallidness of age willthen pass away from your vision revealing the cherubic lineaments of the earlier days harbouring the soul immaculate and immortal! 'every religion is an expression of Divine \visdom' and its study is surely preferable to an off-hand condemnation.