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by reason and logic, and tested by the canons of morality and justice and they know that the result of this examination, made by men as religious and quite as intelligent as themselves, is the utter condemnation of the central ideas of their religionan angry God and vicarious atonement-which are contrary to every fact in nature, as to the better aspirations of the human heart, and, in our present stage of enlightinent, are absurd, preposterous and blasphemous propositions.
Christians well know that their much decorated sculptured statuary is not of pure chiselled marble, but that it is of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution. And still the cry of the host of Christendom is "The whole world for Christ."
What has the contact of Christian nations with Hindus done for the latter? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality and truthfulness of the Hindus evidently has been very low. they are all classed as Heathens and Pagans by the so-called religious representatives of the western world who fail by their conduct to call forth respect from the Hindu. Their unjust and diabolical charges against the Hindus have done, are doing, and will continue to do, more mischief in interracial matters than even the bitterest enemy of your republic could have invented. Such seeds of eymity
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