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JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE
the founder of Jainismthe Path of the Jinas. His knowledge is certain, definite, scientific, and practical, and He will not resort to allegory and metaphor. He is never afraid of any one, and speaks the truth without fear or favour.
To come to Christianity: the submission made, in due bumility, to the Popes and Prelates of the Christian Churches is this: that they should reconsider whether they have or have not understood the teaching of the Founders of Christianity. Jainism is a missionary religion and we are ever happy to welcome new brethren; but we are more anxious to remove the misunderstandings and misconceptions of humanity than to make a slow of numbers. I am not out now to make any converts, but I am ansious that, if possible, the misunderstandings which have arisen and the misconceptions that have been formed concerning the teaching of Christianity be removed; and I shall consider my aim in life fulfilled and my ambition realized if one man even is led to understand his religion, not mine, in the proper way. I already have the assurance from one Englishman that after reading my book "The Key of Knowledge,' he understood what Christianity was. I think he paid me the highest compliment when he said to me, “ You are the one man who made me a Christian.” I am ansious that his good example should be followed by as many people as possible. I request, therefore, the leaders of Christian thought to think over the contents of the preceding pages and chapters of this book, dispassionately, weighing every word of the valuable quotations which I have been able to put together from the early Christian literature.
