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- Have Christian Missions to India Been Successful ? - its very existence on vicarious atonement and fall of main principles which are against, not only Hindu reason but human reason. But my missionary friends say they are educating the people of India. I ask them – with what object. It is only a bait offered for the purpose of catching the Hindu fish into the Christian net.
The mission schools are Christian schools established with the avowed object of perverting the Hindus to Christianity. The education is given there from a Christian or rather a theological standpoint. Educate a child in the Christian religion and the child will profess that religion. That is no sign of Christian success. The secular education given either in these schools or Government English schools has, instead of developing our youths, suppressed their intellectual progress or wrested them violently into unnatural directions.
This is the result of the Christian educational policy. And how is that educational system supported? It is supported out of the revenues derived from taxation. The taxes levied on Hindus also go to support the missionary institutions to which government gives grants-in-aid. When the East India Company got possession of India, they posed as friends of the Hindus against the Mohammedan oppressors and they remained the friends of the Hindu's religion until these missionaries landed in India. From that time instead of the government supporting the Hindu's religion the Hindu is forced to support the Christian's religion out of his own pocket and to look at his own expense at the solemn farce which is carried on in the mission schools.
Bishop Thoburn in his work on India honestly admits that stratagems had to be used in getting children into the secular and Sunday schools; he mentions how successful the missionaries were in establishing a dozen or so Sunday schools in Lucknow in 1877, but he omits to mention that before that time
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