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RIGHT AND WRONG.

THEOSOPHY SOCIETY LECTURE.

Thursday,

LADY READING ON INDIA. Lady Reading, who for the last five years has shared with her "Women of India" Fund, which a firm financial basis. A husband the duties and reapon Lady Reading herself collected, the Hongkong Lodge of the Theo- At the last public meeting of sibilities of the Viceroyalty of enlised £100,000, and has been sophical Society, on India, recently gave a Daily Chronicle representative sonic fdowment of a "Purdah" hospital

employed for the permanent Mr. H. E. Lanépart gave an ad- her impressions of life in that in Simla for women and children dress on "Right' and. Wrong." vast, Empire of 370 million souts, and for the training of nurses. There is no, "absolute wrong or

To Lady Reading's devoted work is due in no small measure the lips did. I learn of these grent Right and wrong are relative and Not from Lady Reading's own right" in the universe, he said. practical development of a great achievements in social benevo- must be judged in relation to the "movement "for the amelioration of the social conditions of the native representative who interviewed his duties appropriate to

lence (writes The Daily Chronicle stage, the individual has reached this women-on whom, she considers, her recently). What Lady Read-stage, his individual. Une

of the future of India depends. ་

She participated in all the record, was put to her, was this: pansion of the inner nature. ing herself said, when he splendid growth, and natural way of ex- splendour and pageantry of her "Whilst I was in India I tried to What is right for one man and de- husband's high office, and took do all I could for the good, cidedly brings him forward by part in tiger shoots and elephant especially, of the children of India calling out his latent qualities by rounds-up. Her most fasting im and the women of India. I did enriching his pression, however, is of the won-so mainly because I feel convinced might be a fatal step backwards soul-experience, derful sympathy shown her during that the future of India depends for another. But the action it- her illness, when prayers for her more than anything else on. the aclf is neither right nor wrong. recovery were said in temples, welfare, education and status of Therefore, the question of duty mosques and synagogues.

the women of India. For five years--years of sacri-

"Wherever I went on State or differ for every soul, for every

and of right and wrong fice and suffering, as well as years private visits I always made a nation. For all, good or right will of pageantry and splendour-Lady point of visiting the schools and Reading shared with her husband the hospitals. All the time I was be that which tends to lift them the burdens and the responsibility in India, too, I came into as close relatively-not necessarily to the that attach to the Viceroyalty of touch as possible with Indian highest ideal before the time, India, to the great office whose women of all classes, races and but to the next stage in the un- holder takes the main part in

folding of their inner, divine, na-

lion human beings.

creeds.

must

swaying the destinies of 320 mil-| "It was of course, a little diffi-ture, no matter how degraded or cult because of 'Purdah' (the impractically sublime this "next strict system of seclusion that step" nearer to Divine Perfection governs the social life of Indian may be. women)...

Those five years transformed the Indian scene. They saw an atmosphere of unrest nad suspicion transmuted into one of

There are three recognised "But I gave Purdah parties, schools of morality existing in the peace and good will. They saw and in that and other ways man-West, too, if not the initiation, at least aged to come into close touch in their theories and teachings, he continued, differing the practical development, of a with Indian women. great movement for the ameliore those whom I met in this way had order to avoid their limitation's

Many of and it is well to study them women in India, and for the/never before seen"à woman of any and to take from them whatever i Lady Reading paid a warm tri-good they may have to offer. There is one school which says

tion of the social conditions of

hygienic welfare of India's youngest generation.

"THE GREATEST OF THESE-"-

race other than their own."

bute to the support that the ruling that revelation from God is, the Princes of the native States gave basis of morality, but the objec-

It is mainly because of the part her in her hospital, nursing, tion raised is that here are many played by Lady Rending that that educational and other work on movement has become such a vital behalf of the women and children religions, each having its. force in the life of India that it of India.

Divine revelation.

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is to-day. It is because Lady Without exception they adopted Another School has arisen, Reading, during those five great the schemes, establishing hospi-which bases morality on intuition, years, wore, not only the gorgeous tals OF robes of the Vicerine, but because appointing medical officers.

welfare centres, and on the conscience, which, does not accept any book, the human con- she wore the not less regal robes

Although not of a strong con- science being considered the only of charity and service.

stitution, and last year the victim guide. Here the objection-is that, Throughout those five years of an illness that entailed a one man's conscience has the same Lady Reading devoted all her serious operation, Lady Rending authority as another man's, and strength and all the time that shared with the Viceroy the strain, who may decide between them. could be spared from her strictly as well as the glitter, of her many The conscience is merely the re- official duties as the sharer of the State visits. She travelledsult of the experience of all the

Viceregal throne to the welfare of through practically all the native lives lived by a man in past exist- the women and children of India. States, and joined in tiger shoot-ences, and its knowledge, must, by What is now known throughouting expeditions and elephant necessity be limited by greater or the longth and breadth of the rounds-up." Indian Empire as the "National

lesser experiences, and. can thus One of her last journeys was to not be a sufficient, reliable guide Baby, Week" movement was the Khyber Paas, from whence, in morality. initiated by Lady Reading.

It had for its ultimate objec- the hills of Afghanistan.

across the frontier, were glimpse 1

The third school of morality is tive the reduction of the terribly Of all these splendid memories the school of utiliarianism, and its high rate of infant mortality. of five Viceregal years none, how-views, as generally presented, are The methods by which the reali-ever, remains so deeply imprint- neither reasonable nor satisfac- sation of that objective was ed as that of the loving sympathy tory. Its maxim is "That is right anught are best summarised in a that was displayed by the people which conduces to the greatest sentence spoken by Lady Reading of India during Lady Reading's happiness of the greatest number." in opening the first "Baby Show" illness.

This maxim will not bear enlight ever held in India.

ened analysis, as it totally ignoros "In the name of the babies," she She reverted to it at the close the fact, the Law in nature, of the said, "let us fight dirt, poverty of the conversation, and gald, infinseparable Brotherhood of Man. and disease."

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So valiantly have those enemies of appreciation, "Prayers for my going towards one goal, noting beon fought, under the leadership recovery were said in temples, and reacting upon another. You of Lady Reading, that each year mosques and syhagogues, churches cannot separate the happiness, of since the battle began the infan- and convents all over India, and one from that of another. This tile mortality rate has shown at had evidence of the sympathy maxim falls because no one man peal to all, and not merely to those divine purpose in the evolution of wonderful and progressive de- of people of all classes, from can ever be perfectly happy in the who need its impulse least. And the universe, and forwards, that

This splendid movement for the at the gates."

princes in their palaces to beggars common ilfe the one universal such moral teaching, as to right improved health and well-being Though Lady Reading did not perfect happiness. This maximum to all, however, high or low one the perfect. This le wrong," which Self until all men have reached and wrong, inspiring and suitable evolution from the imperfect to

the future quickly assumed varicu not realise it, one felt that this to the developed intelligence ner growth is that ancient teach- purpose, and tends to push the of the India, of to-day and of say so, and even, perhaps, docs also fails because it appeals, only might stand on the ladder of in- delays or frustrates that divino forms and as quickly developed, tribute of a people was paid, not leaving a selfish person untouching of Pharma and Karma, which universe back to the stage from

until now India has many hospi-to the Vicerine, but to the woman. tals and welfare centres for who, with woman's love and women and children and estab- tenderness, had spent herself in lishments for the training of the service of women.

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reveals to men the working of the which it is evolving. That is Divine Plan with Humanity, and ever right which helps the evolu Man needs a view of right and shows to high and low alike, that tlion towards divinity and that is wrong that shall inspire all, ap- that is right which works with the wrong which impedes its progress.

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