Part I: American Newspaper Reports: *Detroit Tribune*, February 19, 1894

[*Detroit Tribune*, February 19, 1894]▶

RABBI GROSSMAN IS REFRESHED BY SWAMI VIVE KANANDA▶

. . . "I take your Jesus," Kananda said last Saturday evening [February 17]. (*Vide* “The Divinity of Man” (*Complete Works*, III: 496-501 ) and “Is India a Benighted Country?” (*Complete Works*, IV: 198-202 ).)▶

I take him to my heart as I take all the great and good of all lands and of all times. But you, will you take my Krishna to your heart? No — you cannot, you dare not — still you are the cultured and I am the heathen. . . .▶