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Show The Hindoos are dissatisfied with their religion, and a wide-spread de- j sire for change is reported to bo el- ! isting among them. As they number somewhere about a hundred and ten j millions they will make a rospectable . addition to any church or religious i system that cau secure their adhesion. ' But a lato English writer, who speaks ; , from close observation and reliable in- ! 1 formation, declares that Christianity has no chance, in any of its forms or creeds. The Hindoos object to it bc-oausc bc-oausc they say its professors, or those 1 who call themselves Christians, are too J corrupt, too immoral and loo intern- : pcrate. They drink to excess, indulge in riotoiH living and debauchery, re- 1 ject polygamy, and under the guise of monogamy live lives so licentious as to shock tho pious, polygamic, heathen , Hindoos. And, as a consequence, the I latter arc more inclined, in discarding ; their own mysticism and mythology, to adopt Mahommcdanism, believing it to be purer and better than Chris- : tianity. What a commentary this is upon the religion of civilization and cnlight- ; enuient! And it becomes all the more so when the fact is recognized, which : is freely admitted by the intelligent of j all religious denominations, that inti- j dolity is spreading among Christian ! nations with a hundred fold more ra- j pidily than Christianity is among j " heathen nations. When the very vices ' for which the Hindoos reject it, arc tho.-o against which the principles of Christianity arc most strongly di- . reeled, it seeun about time that ' priests aud preachers should leave their ; neighbors and their neighbors creeds' and laiibs alone while they examine themselves and their own, aud swe where the fault lies. Talk of converting convert-ing tho world, and "wiping out Mor-niouL-ui," with over ahurjdrcd millions : of human beings hungry for a new faith aud tired of ages of idolatry, who '. turn from that offered by tho enlightened enlight-ened nations of the age with loathing! Look to it, gentlemen, you who claim to be exemplars of a pure lile and . teichers of the ouly true faith, there is ''something rotten ia Denmark !'' |