The Society thus organised must live under laws that would guide their every-day life, based on eternal principles of righteousness and fair dealing. Cleanliness and sobriety, honesty and helpfulness, one to another, yet shaped into concrete forms, to suit times and circumstances, and the varying needs of average men and women : the food to be clean and wholesome ; blood-feuds to be abolished ; the rights and duties of heirs to be recognished after death, not in a spirit of Formalism, but to help the weak and the needy and check all selfish wrong-doing ; self-denial to be learnt by fasting ; the courage to fight in defence-of right, to be defined ; the Pilgrimage to be sanctified as a symbol of unity ; charity and help to the poor to be organised ; unseemly riot and drink and gambling to be banished ; orphans to be protected ; marriage, divorce, and widowhood to be regulated ; and the rights of women, apt to be trampled under foot, now clearly affirmed.........
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:39:42 +0000
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