The Light of the World a Brief Comparative Study of Christianity And Non Chris
The Light of the World a Brief Comparative Study of Christianity And Non Chris
Robert E Robert Elliott Speer
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Mr. Madhava Rao, C. I. E. , on departing from Mysore in 1904 to become Dewan of Travancore, said to the missionaries of the province who had come to say good-by: — Gentlemen, you know well how great is my admira- tion for the English civilization, which has done so much for India. It is the fashion sometimes with some of our young men, and I think they are to some' extent right, to say that everything that Christianity may bring books. But they forget that our religion had lost much of its vita...lity "and had failed to influence conduct either personally, socially or politically. It is to the impact of fresh civilization, and the operation of vivifying and vigorous ideas, that we owe the reawakening that is to be found from one end of India to another. It is to Christian influences that we are indebted for the revival of the Hindu religion in the form of the Brahmo Samaj, and there have been other revivals also more or less over the country. Even as regards the European civili- HINDUISM 39 zation and progress, it is, I believe, no less an authority than Benjamin Kidd, who says that the impelling force of the modern progress is to be found in the cardinal principles of Christianity.
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