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Show BRAHMAN OBJECTS TO MISSIONARIES Says Native Religion Is Good Enough and the Christians Intrude. KANSAS CITY, April 30. A Brahman Brah-man missionary, Marayan Krishna, .filling .fill-ing the pulpit of All. Souls church. Episcopal, In this city, by Invitation last evening, said In the course of a talk: f'We're overstocked with Christian, missionaries. Ninety per cent of those we have are ' seneeles. Furthermore, we do not want your religion and your holy book. We have more religion oaoDhers that know thpfr tures. Until then the Vedas, our four books of 'philosophy, are .good enough for us. J'So I pray you Americans, keep your sol-called missionaries at home. If you want to Christianize us, send us some men that are qualified to teach, philosophers phil-osophers that knw their own scriptures. Until then the Vedas, our four books of. philosophy, are good enough for us. j'Show me a country where missionaries mission-aries have been prosperous. It does not exist. There were no famines, no plague in India before the English Invasion. In-vasion. I am here in the Interests of India for India, not India for England." During these remarks some members of; the congregation left the assembly and later Rev. Charles Ferguson apologised apolo-gised for Marayan Krishna's . statements. state-ments. . - i |