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who have mixed for years with missionaries in India and have been eye witnesses to such diabolical methods. Even in this country I have been told by those who claiin to have been present when the same methods were used with the Red Indians.
With such practices, these men talk of the fatherhood of God and brotherhood of inan, the universal love and liberality of thought. Even aside form these acts. the teachings propagated among the most ignorant of the low classes is at best a dogma of one or other particular sect, first and foremost of which is that the Holy Scriptures of the old and new Testament is tbe only word of God, the only rule of faith and obedience. Now if the Scrip tures are what has been claimed for them i, e. if they are the infallible word of God from beginning to end, then we must discard all other sources of knowledge and follow only the teachings of this one book. But have even the most pious Christians, with any intelligence at all, really followed this doctrine to the exclusion of all other sources of knowledge ? Certianly we know as a fact that they have not. This one fact shows that in this respect, Christianity has been a failure as the sole source of light and life, not only in India but in any other country What sane literary man would consider the Bible to be the inspired word of God, a specially when he raises the question as to who wrote the books, when they were written, and where they were written.
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