Idols Destroyed—See [Renunciation, Complete].
IDOLS IN CHRISTIAN SERVICE
Havelock, the English general in India, once held a wonderful prayer-meeting in the idol temple at Rangoon. In the hand of each of the idol gods that lined the sides of the great apartment, his men put a torch, and by the light of these torches in the idols’ hands they held their worship.
(1488)
IGNORANCE
The contrast between heathen and civilized men is indicated by this incident:
“Why did we not think of heating the hard stuff,” the natives exclaimed when they saw the welding of iron, “instead of beating it with stones?”
(1489)
However wise a man may himself be, he does well to guard himself against the ignorance of others: