OEDIKAEY GENEEAL MEETING* 



Geneeal J. G. Halliday in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following elections were announced : — 



Associates : — Et. Eev. Bishop Mitchinson, D.D., F.G.S. ; Brigade-Surgeon 

 Kobert Gray, M.D. ; Kichard E. W. Goodridge, Esq., M. Hist. See. 

 Manitoba. 



The following paper, by Eev. H. D, Griswold, M.A., Ph.D., entitled 

 " The Arya Samaj," was then read by the Secretary, in the absence of 

 the Author : — 



THE ARYA SAMAJ. By Eev. H. D. Griswold, 

 M.A., Ph.D., Missionary, Lahore, India. 



I. Introduction. 



THE Arya Samaj is a Theistic and reforming sect of Modern 

 India. It is the child of Hinduism ; but, unlike the 

 mother, it aims at a universal propaganda. Hinduism, of 

 course, is willing to absorb all the tribes of the earth and 

 enrol them as separate castes, but the Arya Samaj is willing 

 to accept and purify the individual and receive him into the 

 Arya brotherhood, be he Mohammedan or Christian.! In this 

 respect the attitude of the Arya Samaj is modern and 

 cosmopolitan. The Arya Samaj has just been called " the 

 child of Hinduism." It would be more correct to call it the 

 joint offspring of Hinduism and Western thought, scientific, 

 religious and philanthropic. The word " Samaj " means 

 society or assembly, and " Arya " is an ancient Indian epithet 

 meaning " noble," a name applied to members of the three 



Monday, January 19th, 1903. 

 t At the last anniversary of the Vegetarian Section of the Arya 

 Samaj, held in Lahore, November 30th-December 1st, 1902, several 

 Christians were purified and received into the Arya Samaj. 



