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- Have Christian Missions to India Been Successful ? camemuasaminsus enlightenment, are absurd, preposterous and blasphemous propositions.
Christians well know that their much decorated sculptured statuary is not of pure chiselled marble, but that it is of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution. And still the cry of the host of Christendom is “The whole world for Christ."
"What has the contact of Christian nations with Hindus done for the latter? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality and truthfulness of the Hindus evidently has been very low. They are all classed as Heathens and Pagans by the so-called religious representatives of the western world who fail by their conduct to call forth respect from the Hindu. Their unjust and diabolical charges against the Hindus have done, are doing; and will continue to do, more mischief in interracial matters than even the bitterest enemy of your republic could have invented. Such seeds of enmity and hatred have been sown by the Missionaries that I would have considered it to be an almost Herculean task to establish better relations between India and America, had it not been for the Parliament of Religions and the spread of liberal thought from its platform.
It has become an article of faith with most of the orthodox Christians that the Hindus are liars. All-sorts of abuses are heaped on the people of India from the Himalaya to Ceylon, and, without exception all these calumnies proceed either from the Missionaries or the English officer. We accord them as we do even the tiniest animalcule the right to live and be happy in their own way, if they let us alone, but when we find that these little creatures are annoying us, we have to brush them aside. The statements of these Missionaries made about the Hindus, their religions and life, are an admirable illustration of their methods and zeal.
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