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themselves. Every bit of Protestant Christianity in India is maintained by the money flowing from England of America. If you mean that three hundred millions of our people are going to be converted, that is to say, to be bought off by American or English money, I gladly wish for that day: only I would beg of American men and women to send agents in different parts in India so that they may advertize and buy poor needy Hindus at a thousand dollars per bead, so that the Americans would have more Christians and the Hindus would have more money and there would be an end to the present horrible system under which the greater part of the money you send to buy the people is swallowed by the machinery. In one word, send more money and less men.
I do not think that the missionary has a realisation of the enormity of his stupendous undertaking when he attempts to christianise the teeming multitudes of India. There are many factors which stand in his way. The people of India as a whole are saturated in religious and spiritual thought; they think and contemplate on spiritual matters from childhood to death; even the average streetsweeper is frequently more profoundly versed in the subtle metaphysics and divine philosophy than the missionary sent to convert him. The Aryan Hindu will not change bis religion simply because some one tells him to do. He has an active brain and an
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