The Swami Vivekananda lectured for the first time from a public platform on September 11th, 1893 and on July 4th, 1902, he passed away. The fact that so much has been permanently recorded of the immense work done in nine short years is largely due to the energy and devotion of his young English Secretary, J. J. Goodwin, who accompanied him to England from America in 1896, and to India from England in 1897, and who was the first of his personal disciples to fall, dying at Ootacamund, on 2nd June, 1898. Had Mr. Goodwin lived, we should doubtless have had further priceless records of the work
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