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intellect that will not blindly bend at the will of any man; there must be reason; there must be philosophy; mere assertion is valueless,
Besides thiis, there are popular reasons why Christianity has made itself disagreeable to Hindus. Christians being meat-eaters and wide-iinbibers seem to the Hindus to represent a religion devoid of humanitarian or spiritual principles. You do not know what disgust and horror the meat-eating produces in the eyes of the simple-minded Hindu. The very practice of using wine at your Lord's Supper Sanctions toe use of wine at any other time. The Hindu cannot and does not want to accept such a religion. This is the reason why certain sects in India excommunicate their members who go to foreign countries and use there meat and wine. That the representatives of a nation who fatten and kill hundreds and thousands of hogs and steers every day for self-gratification should go to a mild and humane people and preach humanity to them without ever practising it is beyond the comprehension of the Hindu mind.
Sitting at a distance of ten thousand miles, Ladies and gentleinen, you cannot have any ideas of the conduct and acts of the missionaries in India. Englishmen as conquerers of India claim extra-terri. torial right throughout the whole of India. They make a small colony in each city and live there. The
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