Hindu Daily Round " Eager desire to act has its root in
expectation of some advantage, and with such expectation are
sacrifices performed; the rules of religious austerity and
abstinence from sins are all known to arise from hope of
remuneration. Not a single act here below appears ever to be
done by a man free from self-love ; whatever he performs, it is
wrought from his desire of reward." (Mann, ii. 3, 4.) THIS
quotation from the ancient law-giver might serve well as a text
upon which to found a homily, showing the distinctive principle
that underlies all Hindu religion, and comparing it with that of
the religion of Christ. All Hindu religious observances and good
works proceed from a desire to propitiate a malevolent power and
thus ward off evil ; or from an equally low and selfish motive
to obtain personal advantage, some worldly good, or to lay up a
store of personal merit which will shorten the weary round of
transmigration, and enable the person to more rapidly attain the
goal of his aspirations, namel