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282.2 Story of an Emigrant.
have never thought of the difficulties may see that I am not
going to America through any whim or caprice.
Shall I not be excommunicated when I return to India?
Do yon think I should be filled with consternation at this
threat ? I do not fear it in the least. \\ liv should I be cast
out, when I have determined to live there exactly as I do
here? I propose to myself to make 110 change in my customs
and manners, food 01* dress. I will go as a Hindoo and
come back here to live as a Hindoo. 1 will not increase my
wants, but be as plain and simple as my forefathers, and as
I am now. If mv conn try men wish to excommunicate me,
why do they not do it now? They are at liberty to do so.
After my return to America I visited her twice at the
medical college in Philadelphia, where she became ever\-body’s
favorite, being one of the best students that ever crossed the
threshhold of the institution. She did not renounce her
religion or her habits of life, but observed all of these strictlv.
After three years of hard study she passed her examination
with high standing, and practiced a few months in
American hospitals, but she gradually succumbed to the dread
disease, pulmonary consumption, and returned to India
after an absence of four years, only to die in Poonah, the citv
where her ancestors had lived as highlv respectable people
for two thousand years past. She left India with the curse
of the Brahmins 011 her head, but returned as the idol of her
people. Thousands upon thousands crowded around her
home, almost worshiping the frail, noble being whose
youthful life was slowly ebbing away.
Strange are the ways of Providence. When Rev. Dr.
Fjell-steclt kindled a desire to see India in the bosom of the vouns:
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country boy, who could then have guessed that this boy was
to become a medium to assist that Brahmin woman who
was destined to be the first one of the millions of India to
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