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 'beseech the Parsis, the Christians and the Jews to bear in mind the new awakening in India. They will see many-coloured waters in the ocean of Hindu and Musal- man humanity. They will see dirty waters on the shore. I would ask them to bear with their Hindu or Musal- man neighbours who may misbehave with them $nd immediately report to the Hindu and Musalman leaders through their own leaders with a view to getting justice. Indeed I am hoping that as a result of the unfortunate discord a Mahajan will come into being for the disposal of all inter-racial disputes.

The value of this assembly in my opinion consists in the fact that worshippers of the same one God we are enabled to partake of this harmless repast together in spite of our differences of opinion. We have not assembled with the object to-day of reducing such differences, certainly not of surrendering a single principle we may hold dear, but we have met in order to demonstrate that we can remain true to our principles and yet also remain free from ill-will towards one another

May God bless our effort.

YI. THE MORAL ISSUE.

"[Mr. Gandhi, writing in Young India of Dec. 24, pointed out the lesson of the tragedy and wrote on the moral issue before the country.']

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion overriding morality. Man for instance cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side. In Bombay the sympathisers of non-co-operation lost their

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