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by the appeal for subscriptions that was made, and which 

 brought forth donations to the amount of about Es. 10,000 

 besides this one offer. But the other was a much more 

 remarkable incident, viz., the resolution declared by Lala Mehr 

 Chand, B.A., to devote himself to the interests of the D.A.V. 

 College and to work on bare subsistence, taking a vow of 

 poverty. ... A notable start in this direction was made 

 by the example set by Lala Hans Eaj, B.A., Principal D.A.V. 

 College." — Panjah Ohsei-'ver. 



There are two classes of preachers, honorary and paid. The 

 honorary preachers are local, the paid are itinerant. The first 

 class consists of men in regular employment as clerks, pleaders, 

 teachers, physicians and other business men, mostly English- 

 educated and many of them college-bred. On the other hand, 

 the paid preachers give all their time to the work of preaching, 

 and are, as a rule, educated only in the vernacular. The salary 

 of a paid preacher ranges from Es. 12 to Es. 60. It is 

 interesting to note that the "cultured" party emphasizes 

 education, while the mahdtmd party emphasizes preaching. 

 Each section of the Arya Samaj maintains a number of high 

 schools and orphanages, and also several newspapers both in 

 English and in the vernacular. 



We come finally to the statistics and future prospects of the 

 Arya Samaj. According to the census of 1891, there were in 

 India ten years ago 39,952 Aryas, including men, women and 

 children, the United Provinces returning 22,053 and the 

 Panjab 16,275. Eor 1901 the census for the United Provinces 

 returned 65,282 Aryas, an increase of 43,229 during the 

 decade. This is a remarkable advance. The numerical increase 

 has not been so great in the Panjab, the census for 1901 

 returning 9,105 males over fifteen, not counting women and 

 children. Thus the numbers of the followers of Swami 

 Dayanand, including men, women and children, must at 

 present amount for all India to 80,000 or 90,000. Such is the 

 result of the first quarter of a century of work on the part of 

 the Arya Samaj. Such is the monument which Swami 

 Dayanand has secured for himself through his disciples. 



As regards the future of the Arya Samaj it is difficult to 

 play the prophet. It is undoubtedly the most popular 

 theistic and reforming movement in India to-day. In the 

 matter of female education, emancipation of women, tem- 

 perance and other reforms, it is in the line of progress. It 

 also ministers to the patriotic spirit through its insistence that 

 the Vedas are the original source of all the religion and 



