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interested to read up on those matters; but it is a fact that the Presbyterian Church is tottering and crumbling us who have outgrown the dark ages. I believe, however, that Dr. Barrows is a broad liberal man at heart, but like hundreds of other Christian ministers of these times, he is a broad liberal man at heart, but like hundreds of other Dr. Barrows is a broad liberal man at heart, but like hundreds of other Christian ministers of these times, he dare not advocate openly what he believes especially since the Parliament. But I am more concerned for poor India. Why should Christianity, which is a failure here, be thrust upon India? I may be asked how it is a failure. To be sure, we have many elegant Churches and hundreds of well-paid attaches, whom God calls to minister to the flock, who can pay the highest price that the minister by his ability, eloquence and oratical powers may be able to command. The failure, however, is to be seen in the records of crime and vice. Yesterday's (Sunday's) paper records over seventy crimes and twenty - seven murders. Is not Christianity a failure in the country in whose Capitol (Senate House) are several rooms devoted solely to the sale of wines and liquors for the use of our Congressmen and Senators (many of them Church members), while they are engaged in makinfg our laws, and this in a country that has never known any other than Christian religion. With all our numerous Churches and more numerous ministers, we have no true spirituality to offer India. The purity, simplicity of life, and teachings brought from India by the humble Jesus are neither understood nor practised. We, therefore, cannot offer spirituality to India. We are subsisting on the dry empty husks ourselves. Our Christianity is but a money making machine, stealing the hearts and minds of millions of people, driving others to
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