Fire Worshipers
the Zoroastrians called also Guebres. Herodotus, about 450 в. c., said "The Persians think fire to be a god." Strabo, about 50 A. D., says, "They peculiarly sacrifice to fire and water, placing dry wood on the fire stripped of its bark, with fat thrown upon it." The Rev. Dr. Wilson, of Bombay, alleges that "they actually address it in supplication, as if it were sentient, intelligent, divine, and omnipresen ready to hear, bless, assist, and deliver."
No prominent race now in India has become more rapidly modified by intercourse with Europeans. The fire worshipers have, in the course of their history, suffered the most cruel persecution from the Mohammedans. nipresent, and