Auld lang syne. Second series : $b My Indian friendsMüller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
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Auld lang syne. Second series : $b My Indian friends
Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
India; Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900 -- Friends and associates
remember meeting often in old days in the cheerful common-room of Christ
Church. They were very kind to him, and he was most grateful to his
brothers. Yet I feel doubtful whether even they understood him fully,
and made allowance for all his troubles and all his sacrifices.
When Nehemiah Goreh was in England for the last time, and staying at
Oxford, he was not allowed to come to see me, except on the very day of
his departure. This was unkind to both of us; he was in no more danger
from me than I was from him. I know that in his early days he had used
the wings of his mind with great freedom, that he had tried to soar to
the highest abodes of the Divine, and to fathom the deepest abysses of
human nature, fearless of all consequences. He reminded me in that
respect of Dr. Pusey, who often declared that he had studied more heresy
than anybody else; but, having seen the horrors of utter darkness on
every side, he felt it his duty to warn others, and to keep them from
seeing what he had seen. Strange only that Nehemiah, brought up as he
had been in the doctrines of the Vedânta, should not have seen how even
the highest heights and the deepest depths which can be reached by the
human mind are lighted up by the omnipresence of Brahman, the Indian
name and concept of what we mean by the omnipresent Father, or, if you
like, of that ineffable Godhead of which even the Father is one person
only. He had become tired of his lifelong search, and had long closed
his eyes to this world of seeming. When at last his heart ceased to
beat, he felt satisfied that all was well, and that he was safe in
trusting in Christ.
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