Society In New York In 1886: Returning to the United States, Griffis entered the Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1877 and took up the ministry, first in the First Reformed Church in Schenectady (1877-1886) and then in Congregational churches in Boston and Ithaca from 1886 to 1903. After 1903 he devoted himself to writing and lecturing. He died on Feb. 5, 1928, at Winter Park, Fla.
Grady's influence in promoting better relations between the North and the South was considerable, and he was in great demand as a speaker. His address on "The New South" be- • fore the New England Society in New York in 1886 brought him national prominence, and a speech in Boston in 1889 on "The Race Problem in the South" was the first progressive Southern view heard there.
RAMAKRISHNA, ra'ma-krish'na, Hindu yogi: b. Kamarpukur, Bengal, Feb. 20, 1836; d. Calcutta, March 15, 1886. Renowned as the founder of the Ramakrishna mission (the Vedanta Society), he was an assistant in the temple of the goddess Kali on the banks of the Ganges River, where, from 1855, he devoted his life to developing his religious ideas. His thought was eclectic and he believed that all religions were paths to a common goal, Samadhi, or God-consciousness.
Consult The Memoirs of Ramakrishna (Calcutta 1939), a revision of Gospel of Ramakrishna (New York 1907). |
