The Brahma Samaj and Other Modern Eclectic Systems of Religion in India

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Christian Literature Society, 1893 - Brahma-samaj - 113 pages
 

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Page 7 - God, who has equally subjected all living creatures, without distinction of caste, rank, or wealth, to change, disappointment, pain and death, and has equally admitted all to be partakers of the bountiful mercies which he has lavished over nature, and is also so well fitted to regulate the conduct of the human race in the discharge of their various duties to God, to themselves, and to society, that I cannot but hope the best effects from its promulgation in the present form.
Page 33 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein ; who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 31 - Asiatic. In fact, Christianity was founded and developed by Asiatics, and in Asia. When I reflect on this, my love for Jesus becomes a hundredfold intensified, I feel him nearer my heart, and deeper in my national sympathies.
Page 104 - CHILDREN we are all Of one great Father, in whatever clime His providence hath cast the seed of life, All tongues, all colours...
Page 70 - ... 4. This sacrifice, and this only, shall I make to existing prejudices. But I shall never endeavour to deceive any one as to my religious opinions, and never stoop to equivocation or hypocrisy, in order to avoid unpopularity.
Page 15 - The German name for prince is Fiirst, in English first, he who is always to the fore, he who courts the place of danger, the first place in fight, the last in flight. Such a Fiirst was...
Page 39 - Men have attempted to prove that I have been guided by my own imagination, reason, and intellect. Under this conviction they have from time to time protested against my proceedings. They should remember that to protest against the cause I uphold is to protest against the dispensations of God Almighty, the God of all Truth and Holiness.
Page 34 - In Devotional Literature and religious thought, I find nothing of ours that does not pale before Augustine, Tauler, and Pascal. And in the Poetry of the Church it is the Latin or the German hymns, or the lines of Charles Wesley or of Keble, that fasten on my memory and heart, and make all else seem poor and cold.
Page 17 - Vow. I will worship, through love of Him and the performance of the works He loveth', God the Creator,, the Preserver, and the Destroyer, the Giver of salvation, the omniscient, the omnipresent, the blissful, the good, the formless, the One only without a second.
Page 11 - Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.

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