Life and religion of the Hindoos. : $b With a sketch of my life and experience. — John Shaqi
Life and religion of the Hindoos. : $b With a sketch of my life and experience.Gangooly, Joguth Chunder
Religion
Life and religion of the Hindoos. : $b With a sketch of my life and experience.
Gangooly, Joguth Chunder
Hindus; India -- Social life and customs
He often spoke of his need of Christ. It was the
Saviour who satisfied the deepest yearnings of his nature.
He expressed this after reading the “Experience of Theodore
Parker.” Although on many points he was in intellectual sympathy
with Mr. Parker, he differed from him in his estimate of Christ.
He often spoke of the Saviour as his absolute teacher, and often
spoke with deep feeling of the value of Christ’s invitation to
sinners, “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me,
for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto
your souls; for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
He laid great stress on the doctrine of the simple Unity of
God. As the Hindoo Trinity was associated in his mind with the
superstitions of his old faith, he always had the same feeling
with respect to the Christian Trinity. As he emancipated himself
from idolatry by a natural law of thought, he seized hold of
the truth of the simple unity of God, and clung to it with
great tenacity of conviction. In his mind Unitarianism, that
is, the idea of the Oneness of God, was synonymous with that of
Christianity. He left the idols of men’s creating, and clung to
the doctrine of the one living and true God.
But the most interesting feature of his life here was to see
the power of the Gospel, as a spiritual force, working out
moral results in his character. He came among us the creature
of impulse. This in the early period of his sojourn here led
him into hastiness of action. His impulsiveness was the weak
side of his character. But through the influence of prayer,
and the spirit of Christ strengthening him, he was enabled
to overcome this defect to a great degree. At first, like a
child, the desire and the effort to gratify the desire followed
each other without reflection intervening. But he learned
through experience the important lesson of self-control.
He had great truthfulness. This is the more remarkable,
because lying is a universal sin among the Bengali. With the
knowledge of this national vice, and with a scrutiny which
sometimes ran into an unwarranted and ungenerous suspicion,
and in the most confidential intercourse for a year, I cannot
recall a single instance of wilful prevarication. He also
blended great simplicity with a sagacity which bordered on
cunning. This was so evident that often he would say he had
the cunning of the serpent with the gentleness of the dove.
It was the union of these opposites, in connection with his
impulsiveness and ignorance of our conventional prudence, which
gave his friends solicitude. While they had confidence in his
character, they feared he might be misunderstood from his
apparent indiscretions. How few of our own youth are enabled
to go through the various exposures of life and come out with
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