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HISTOR Y Of THE PARSIS. [chap. ii.
making a grand total of the donations of this most
liberal and generous lady amounting, for this useful
undertaking alone, to the sum of Es. 157,000. Lady
Jamshedji had frequently urged that, as the poorer
classes of the community were concerned, it was no
more than right and just that the rich should contri-
bute to their wants. In thus noticing the liberality
of her ladyship, I cannot but avail myself of the
opportunity of mentioning circumstances which to
some here present may be totally unknown—I allude,
Sir Jamshedji, to the very great liberality of your
family. From a memorandum that I made some two
years back, and from what I have since been able to
collect, though many of your deeds of charity are
hidden from the sight of all men, I sum up that no
less a sum than £100,000 has been subscribed
by your family for public works; and when I come
to place this sum in juxtaposition with the gifts of
British merchants I say, Give me a Bombay mer-
chant. It matters not to what creed they may belong,
as they are created of one and the same God ; and the
act of benevolence and charity will, it is to be hoped,
have its weight eventually. I shall now conclude by
proposing the health of Lady Jamshedji, and that she
and Sir Jamshedji and family may for many years be
blessed with health and prosperity."
We have referred to the high honour of knighthood ,
which Sir Jamshedji received from Her Gracious
HISTOR Y Of THE PARSIS. [chap. ii.
making a grand total of the donations of this most
liberal and generous lady amounting, for this useful
undertaking alone, to the sum of Es. 157,000. Lady
Jamshedji had frequently urged that, as the poorer
classes of the community were concerned, it was no
more than right and just that the rich should contri-
bute to their wants. In thus noticing the liberality
of her ladyship, I cannot but avail myself of the
opportunity of mentioning circumstances which to
some here present may be totally unknown—I allude,
Sir Jamshedji, to the very great liberality of your
family. From a memorandum that I made some two
years back, and from what I have since been able to
collect, though many of your deeds of charity are
hidden from the sight of all men, I sum up that no
less a sum than £100,000 has been subscribed
by your family for public works; and when I come
to place this sum in juxtaposition with the gifts of
British merchants I say, Give me a Bombay mer-
chant. It matters not to what creed they may belong,
as they are created of one and the same God ; and the
act of benevolence and charity will, it is to be hoped,
have its weight eventually. I shall now conclude by
proposing the health of Lady Jamshedji, and that she
and Sir Jamshedji and family may for many years be
blessed with health and prosperity."
We have referred to the high honour of knighthood ,
which Sir Jamshedji received from Her Gracious