serve the spirit of Christianity better by dropping the
goal of proselytising while continuing their philanthro- pic work? 1 hope you will not consider this to be an im- pertinence on my part. I make the suggestion in all sincerity and with due humility. Moreover I have some claim upon your attention. I have endeavoured to study the Bible. I consider it as part of my scriptures. The spirit of the Sermon on the Mount competes almost on equal terms with the Bhagavad Gita for the domination of my heart. I yield to no Christian in the strength of devotion with which I sing ' Lead kindly light " and several other inspired hymns of a sifliilar nature. I have come under the influence of noted Christian mis- sionaries belonging to different denominations. And I enjoy to this day the privilege of friendship with some of them, You will perhaps, therefore, allow that I have offered the above suggestion not as a biased Hindu, but as a humble and impartial student of religion with great leanings towards Christianity. May it not be that Go ye unto all the world " message has been somewhat narrowly interpreted and the spirit of it missed ? Jt will not be denied, I speak from experience, that many of the conversions are only so-called. In some cases tho appeal has gone not to the heart but to the stomach. And in every case a conversion leaves a sore behind it which, I venture to think, is avoidable. Quoting again from experience, a new birth, a change of heart, is perfectly possible in every one of the great faiths. I know I am now treading upon thin ice. But I do not apologise in closing this part of my subject, for saying that the frightful outrage that is just going on in Europe, per- haps shows that the message of Jesus of Naza- reth, the Son of Peace, had been little understood in
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