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I have learned since here in this country why it is that in my own country different missionaries and Ghristian teachers antagonize one another. It is because the desciples are no better than their masters; because I find in this country many Christianities and the multiplied disagreements amounting to mutual oppression and excommunication, teach me that, either there be many Christs or that the one Christ is dismembered and toin, and divided up among many factions, wno in quarrelling over their several possessions accomplish nothing but the of the real truth.
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We heathens of India recognize the many-sidedness of truth, and are divided into schools of philosophy and uut for the promulgation of truth as we see it, but nevertheless we are united very deep in one thought, oue conception, one adoration and one worship of the true and only infinite source of perfection the Christ of all humanity. From this point of view he may be called Bramah, Vishnu, Shiva, Buddha, Jina, or the Christ of Nazareth we have no objections, but in the deep and true appreciation of him, these names must signity one life, one source, one manifestation and one universal expression of love. The Jain poet says: "I praise him who has destroyed the seeds of physical death and birth, be he Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva or Jina." These prayers were composed before the birth of Jesus or of Buddha-had they lived before their composition, their would have been added.
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