From Hinduism to Christ, or, Salvation Sought, Found, and Enjoyed

It is the earnest desire of the soldier, whose photograph appears with this article, that the name of the Lord Jesus may be magnified by what is herein recorded.
The subject of this narrative was born of Hindu parentage in March, 1886. His mother dying when he was but nine years of age, an uncle took him to his home in order to provide him with a good education, his grandfather (an eminent Tamil Pandit) giving him at the same time some Hindu religious teaching. When able to read and write Tamil he was sent to a school for the purpose of learning some English, receiving also some instruction about Christianity. By his father’s directions he was soon removed from this school, and sent to another established by the Government, where there was no religious instruction whatever. I might here remark that the subject of this brief sketch took a peculiar delight in reading and studying some old books, made by his grandfather. These books, constructed of Palmyra leaves, treated principally of things pertaining to Hinduism. His enquiring turn of mind led him to be ever on the look-out (as the Athenians of old) and others for opportunities of either telling, or hearing, some new thing.