_A large meeting of the people of Mymensingh was held in October 1917,
at the Surjakanta Hall, under the presidency of Babu Anathbandhu Guha
to formulate a scheme of responsible Government for India, when Mr. C.
R. Das addressed as follows_:--
Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen--I thank you heartily for calling upon me
to address you to-night. This is my first visit to Mymensingh. Before I
arrived here, I really did not know that I had so many friends amongst
you. My friend Mr. Guha has referred to my unselfish activities. I am
sure I do not deserve that praise. But this I will claim for myself
that whenever the interest of the country required my services, I
have never lagged behind. I might not have always adopted the right
course--I might have been wrong, every one of us is often wrong but I
have always honestly tried to place the interest of the country above
all considerations. With me work for my country is not imitation of
European politics. It is part of my religion. It is part and parcel of
all the idealism of my life. I find in the conception of my country the
expression also of divinity. With me nationality is no mere political
conception borrowed from the philosophy of the west. With me a nation
has to grow because a nation must grow. God's universe teems with
varieties of life. Every nation is one unit of such life. Every nation
must grow, to the evolution of life. The nation to which I belong must
also grow, only we must help in its growth. I value this principle of
nationality as I value the principle of morality and religion. The
service of country and nationality is service of humanity. Service of
humanity is worship of God.