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about them and are propagated under his name and as if by his command, and the result has been disastrous.
We all fully understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is most disastrous to its commerce and revenues. It is an acknowledged fact to day, the worll over, that the spiritual coinage has become deba sed. It is also a fact that all religions worthy of the naine are making great efforts to purify and return to their orginal standard-I should have said all religions except Christia uity. The intellectual Hindus do not deny that their religion, as understood by the masses to-day, is not in its pure and unadulterated state as formerly, and the allimportant question with them is what are the real ideas expressed in their sacred literature ? Christians surely must know, even with greater certainty, that the 19th Century Christianity is not the religion taught by Jesus. Christians well know that their religion has becoine changed and corrupted as comparative theology and philological and other criticisms of their sacred books are more advanced than in the case of other religions. But Christians theologians are well aware that were they to atteinpt to purify their religion of to-day and bring it back to the standard of Apostolic days, the result would be to reform it out of existence. The Christian churches know this to be a fact. During
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