| Show A axi i boo doo nero HErO kner KMER caunder sen son the hindmo reformer fa who Is about to visit visia this country f is a remarkable man he is on a t tour our of inspection of the institutions of the professedly christian nations and has created quite a sensation in eng england he is native of calcutta Calcut tx where his wife and four children kte ite are awai awal awaiting his return he is in his year A man of liberal advanced ideas he advocates the abolition of idolatry and of caste though himself belonging to the physician caste the highest caste in india but one and the adoption of a belief in one god the everlasting father and friend of mankind the english papers in commenting upon his visit to england say gay that it is a significant ant sign that at a time the church of england is disquieted by the dissension of and ration all stand when the roman church is forging her thunderbolt aua ana themas to hurl burl at all who doubt her infallibility there should come a man from heathen india the cradle of mythology the tho land of caste the home of superstition and fanaticism to teach europe which claims to be enlightened the virtue of toleration the beauty of morality the unity of truth and the brotherhood of hu humanity inanity he desires to learn all that he can for he alms aims to promote education to get rid of caste and to imbue his countrymen with with a higher moral life but he acknowledges now ledges that the conflicting creeds and rites with which he meets among professed christians all basing their belief on the bibla bible bewilder bewilder him it is questionable whether his hia visit will 1 inspire him with ditl very high views or respect for so called christianity or its morals as he sees them exemplified fled fied in christendom there is much about kashub chun i der sens belief that la incorrect but he has displayed wonderful zeal and en an thusia sm in his hia endeavors to elevate his race lace to have them forsake idolatry and to carry out in their lives the truth seo feo far as they could comprehend it his ells views of the tho savior may be partly gathered from an extract taken from one of his addresses tell me brethren whether you regard jesus of nazareth the carpenters son as an ordin ordinary aryman man la thero there a single soul soui in this large assembly who would scruple to ascribe extraordinary greatness and supernatural moral he heroism to jesus christ andhiv and him cruci crucified fied fidd applause blessed jesus immortal child of god godl for the world he lived and died may the world appreciate him and follow his precepts applause yet like the refuses to believe in the divinity of the saviors per peron on at another time while speak ing of him he said he like all other prophets is a god man an incarnation of god not the divine nature in mortal form but simply god manifest in humanity not god made man but god in man on this point he is evidently mixed and he does doea not understand that jesus is in truth the immortal child of ofa god I 1 or he would comprehend that he 1 was the divine nature in mortal form according to his view jesus was a truly great and good prophet hut but neither ile he nor his religion according to ke shub caunder bens sens ideas embody allo nil all that is good he thus thug discourses about the hindmo and religions but I 1 must emphatically sault say it Is wrong to set down hinduism or mohammedanism Mohammed aniam as nothing but a mass oklies of lies lles and abominations and worthy of being trampled under foot proscribe and eliminate all that is false therein there remains a residue residua of truth and purity which you are bound to honor you will find certain central truths in these systems though surrounded by errors which constitute their vitality and which have preserved them for centuries in spite of opposition and in which hundreds of good men have always found the tho bread of life it is these which form even now the mighty pillars of hinduism and mohammedanism and chan chaU challenge engo enge universal admiration and respect it is idle to suppose that such gigantic systems of faith will be swept away by the fervor of youthful excitement or the violent fulminations fulmination a 0 of f sectarian bigot bigotry bolong so long iong ag as there is real power in them all ali ithe tho onslaughts which are being leveled against them in this age of free inquiry and bold criticism will tend not to destroy them but to purify them and develop their true principles the signs of the times already indicate this process of purification and development and I 1 belie belle vo 70 this process will gradually br bring I 1 ng hinduism and mohammedanism hitherto so hostile to each other into closer union till the two ultimately harmonize to form the future church of india kashub caunder chande r sen will be likely to accomplish much good for fon his countrymen try menn meff should he persevere as he fia has begun his visit to christendom will probably have the effect to strengthen him innis in hla hia own views and to make him more energetic in their propagation Th ereis very little that so called christianity has haa to offer to a man of his advanced thought he will find himself bewildered whenever he attempts to reconcile its professions and fruits with the book from which it asserts it derives its authority and doctrines its inconsistencies will scarcely scare bly vly have any attraction for him |
