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the simple reason that one of its fundamental doctrines is that there is no salvation outside of its pale. "They who have never beard the Gospel, know not the Jesus Christ, and believe not in him, cannot be saved, be they ever so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, or the laws of that religion which they profess; neither is there Salvation in any other, but in Christ alone, who is the Saviour only of his body the church.” It is then clearly impossible that other religions should find any way to live with Christianity since the latter is pledged by its very constitution to undermine and destroy all others.
Christianity cannot now destroy other roligions by fire and sword as it has done in the past when the church and the bloody sword were inseparable powers; but if the end is death, "it is a mere matter of detail" as a writer has said, "whether one gets his head cut off or is nailed up in a barrel of honey."
Next to intolerance, Christianity has introduced many vices in India which were unknown to the Hindus. You may say that these vices are not Christian, that Christianity has nothing to do with them. This may be true in a measure, but Christianity does not come alone; it does not come direct through Jesus Christ. It comes to us through its modern representatives. It comes percolating
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