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and hatred have been sown by the Missionaries that I would have considered it to be an almost Herculean task to establish better relations between India and America, had it not been for the Parliament of Religions and the spread of liberal thought from its platform.
It has become an article of faith with most of the orthodox Christians that the Hindus are liars. All sorts of abuses are heaped on the people of India from the Himalaya to Ceylon, and, without exception all these calumnies proceed either from the Missionaries or the English officer. We accord then as we do even the tiniest animalcule the right to live and be happy in their own way, if they let us alone, but when we find that these 'little creatures are annoying us, we have to brush them aside. The statements of these Missionaries made about the Hindus, their religions and life, are an admirable illustration of their methods and zeal. When I first came to know in this county from Missionary sources that in India women threw their babies into the Ganges and that people threw themselves under the car of Juganauth, I doubted whether in the blackest and most intolerant days of the Christian Church any set of villainous priests ever invented more barefaced fasehoods or malicious slanders. It was a Missionary of the Christian Church who threw a fire-brand in the peaceful assembly of the Parliament of Religions and a:tracted the representatives
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