RELIGION NOT THE CRYING NEED OF INDIA
20th September, 1893Christians must always be ready for good criticism, and I hardly think that you
will mind if I make a little criticism. You Christians, who are so fond of
sending out missionaries to save the soul of the heathen — why do you not try
to save their bodies from starvation? In India, during the terrible famines,
thousands died from hunger, yet you Christians did nothing. You erect
churches all through India, but the crying evil in the East is not religion — they
have religion enough — but it is bread that the suffering millions of burning
India cry out for with parched throats. They ask us for bread, but we give them
stones. It is an insult to a starving people to offer them religion; it is an insult to
a starving man to teach him metaphysics. In India a priest that preached for
money would lose caste and be spat upon by the people. I came here to seek aid
for my impoverished people, and I fully realised how difficult it was to get help
for heathens from Christians in a Christian land.
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