India : Country, People, MissionsJ.T. Gracey, 1884 - 207 pages |
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Page 3 - India. If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power, and beauty that nature can bestow — in some parts a very paradise on earth — I should point to India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant...
Page 176 - I assure you that, whatever you may be told to the contrary, the teaching of Christianity among 160 millions of civilized, industrious Hindoos and Muhammedans in India is effecting changes, moral, social, and political, which for extent and rapidity of effect are far more extraordinary than anything you or your fathers have witnessed in modern Europe.
Page 153 - The country will have Christian instruction infused into it in every way by direct missionary education, and indirectly through books of various kinds, through the public papers, through conversation with Europeans, and in all the conceivable ways in which knowledge is communicated. Then at last, when society is completely saturated with Christian knowledge, and public opinion has taken a decided turn that way, they will come over by thousands.
Page 152 - It seems to me that, year by year and cycle by cycle, the influence of these missionaries must increase, and that, in God's good will, the time may be expected to come when large masses of the people, having lost all faith in their own. and feeling the want of a religion which is pure and true and holy, will be converted and profess the Christian religion, and having professed it, live in accordance with its precepts.
Page 178 - Missionaries shall pass a series of examinations in the vernacular of the district in which they reside ; and the general practice has been, that all who have to deal with Natives who do not know English shall seek a high proficiency in these vernaculars. The result is too remarkable to be overlooked. The Missionaries, as a body, know the natives of India well : they have prepared hundreds of works, suited both for schools and for general circulation, in the fifteen most prominent languages of India,...
Page 165 - Who rules India? What power is that which sways the destinies of India at the present moment ? You are mistaken if you think that it is the ability of Lord Lytton in the cabinet, or the military genius of Sir Frederick Haines in the field, that rules India. It is not politics, it is not diplomacy that has laid a firm hold of the Indian heart. It is not the glittering bayonet nor the fiery cannon of the British army that can make our people loyal. No, none of these can hold India in subjection. Armies...
Page 60 - No one comes empty-handed. The richer pilgrims heap gold and silver and jewels at the feet of the god, or spread before him charters and title-deeds, conveying rich lands in distant Provinces. Every one, from the richest to the poorest, gives beyond his ability ; many cripple their fortunes for the rest of their lives in a frenzy of liberality; and hundreds die on the way home, from not having kept enough to support them on the journey.
Page 83 - For more than twenty years I have been a student of Buddhism; I have thoroughly studied the Buddhist books; I have talked with hundreds of Buddhist priests and monks, Chinese, Mongolian, and Thibetan; I have visited many Buddhist temples, I have even lived in such. Therefore, laying aside all mock modesty, . . . I feel competent to state that a more gigantic system of fraud, superstition, and idolatry than Buddhism as it now is, has seldom been inflicted by any false religion upon mankind.