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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
No wonder then that Rammohun Roy and Keshub Chunder Sen should have been
hopeful that their endeavours also might be crowned by the same success
as Nânak’s, and that their new Church would have included not only the
believers in the Vedas and the Korân, but the believers in the Bible
also. They both tried very hard to come to an understanding with the
representatives of Christianity in India. It is the same even now. There
are men who can speak in the name of the Indian people at large, and
whose example would tell on the masses who in every country have to be
led by their own men of light and leading. Mozoomdar, the natural
successor of Keshub Chunder Sen, would not recede a step from the
position which his great predecessors took up with regard to
Christianity. The idea that his Samâj was in any sense opposed to
Christianity or jealous of it would be scouted by him as it was by
Keshub Chunder Sen. “Woe unto me,” Keshub wrote, “if ever I harboured in
my mind the remotest desire to found a new sect, and thus add to the
already accumulated evils of sectarianism! Woe unto us, if I ever
conceived the project of setting up a movement against the Church of
Christ! Perish these lips if they utter a word of rebellion against
Jesus. And let the genial currents of my life-blood be curdled at this
very moment, if I glory in the hateful ambition of rising against my
master. A new sect! God forbid. We preach not a new sect, but the death
of sectarianism and the universal reconciliation of all churches. But
the very idea of an eclectic church, it will be contended, is
anti-Christian. To mix up Christ with the hundred and one creeds of the
world is to destroy and deny Christ. To mix Christ with what? With
error, with impurity? No. Mix Christ with all that is Christian in other
creeds. Surely that is not un-Christian, far less anti-Christian. In
uniting the East and the West, in uniting Asiatic and European faith and
character, the Church of the New Dispensation works faithfully upon the
lines laid down by Christ, and only seeks to amalgamate the Western
Christ and the Eastern Christ. It is not a treaty of Christ with
anti-Christ that is proposed, but the reconciliation of all in Christ.
It is not the mixture of purity with impurity, of truth with falsehood,
of light with darkness, but the fusion of all types of purity, truth,
and light in all systems of faith into one integral whole. It is the
expurgation of anti-Christian elements from the so-called Christian and
heathen creeds of the world, and the amalgamation of the pure Christian
residuum left. Such is the pure Christian electicism of the Church of
the New Dispensation.”
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