Life and Religion of the Hindoos: With a Sketch of My Life and Experience (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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It was this entire difference between his previous train ing, his race, mental habitudes, and social surroundings and our own, which made the question of his education a difficult one. What should we do with this young Hin doo? He had not come to be Americanized. He did not propose to occupy our pulpits as a permanent min ister, or to address those who had grown up with our habits of thought, traditional convictions, or peculiarities of race and nation. He came to prepare himself to teach and preach Christianity to the people in India, and to translate the fresh and vigorous ideas of a rational Chris tian faith into his native tongue. As yet he had to learn more fully the English language. A recent convert, he had all the fresh enthusiasm of a neophyte. Thus far he had learned chiefly from Christ, and had caught glimpses of the moral elevation and spiritual beauty of his religion as seen in the Gospels, or idealized by his own vivid Oriental imagination. He had not fully seen the wide gulf which separates the pure religion of Christ and that which is so often taught and lived by imperfect disciples. He was wholly unfitted to enter intelligently, all at once, into those intellectual discussions which arise from the conflict between established belief and prevailing doubt. In the first stages of his Christian experience, it might permanent ly injure him to be exposed to that destructive and critical.

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