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believe the stern fact that he has left us. The very magnitude and
the uncommon character of our loss helps to keep up the impression
that he is yet with us. Oh, when shall we see the like of him again!
When shall we see again a man who is pervaded and permeated to
most remotest fibre of his soul with a desire to disseminate the light
of truth, — the eternal principles of the Vedic religion, — with a
desire to usher the world once more into the presence of the Most
High, through His Word and through those who have known and
understood His Word! Oh, Guru Datta Vidyarthi, thine loss at this
hour is irreparable. In thine own particular sphere thou leaves
behind not one man who can take up and do the work that thou
wouldst have done.
Thine, 0 young man, was soul truly noble, and thine short
career was dazzlingly brilliant, though thou were unconscious of
it. And truly and justly so, because thine aims were high and lofty,
thou looked to Gautama, Patanjli, Vyas, Yajnavalkya and Swami
Dayananda as thy models, and thou wast ever pleased in their
company and in their guidance of thee! So noble and so promising,
and yet to be cut off so early! What hopes had we of thee, and what
wouldst thou not hai'e achieved in the cause of truth, if it had
pleased the Great Disposer of all things to let thee live longer! But
His Will be done! That thine soul is happier infinitely by far now,
that it is free from the bonds of flesh, may be true, but for all that
we can not but wish that thou hadst lived longer among us! And
yet we may not repine, for it is thine to be born once more before
the soul reposes in the bosom of the Most High for years countless,
thou shalt surely come to us, with thine powers hundred fold
magnified to advance the cause of truth!
Pandit Guru Datta Vidyarthi took leave of us on the morning
of 19th instant at about half past seven. He died of consumption,
that terrible disease, which is becoming so common in this country.
But if the Pandit's career as long as he was blessed with strength
environed by a halo of moral grandeur and religious ferver, and
was worth our study and immitation, its closing scene was well
becoming so noble a soul. During the entire period of some six
months, during which he was confined to his bed, he was ever calm,
serene and unmoved in the midst of his sufferings. Not all his tortures
could bring from his heroic soul the slightest expression of inward
pain during the fiercest on slaught of the raging fever which had, as
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