The Sympathy of ReligionsFree religious association, 1876 - 38 páginas |
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Africa Akhlak-i-Jalaly ancient Augustine barbarians beautiful beginning believe brotherhood Buddha Buddhist called caste Catholic Chris Christ Christendom Christianity in Ceylon church Cleanthes Cleobulus Collet creed declared Dhammapada Digby Digby's Ages Diog divine doctrine enemy enim Epictetus essay Europe evil exclusive claims faith Fatherhood Greek holy human race Iamblichus Indian Jesus Jewish Justin Martyr Keshub Chunder Keshub Chunder Sen Koran Lactantius Laertius mankind Marcus Antoninus martyrs Max Müller Max Müller's Maximus Tyrius medan medanism missionaries denounce Moham Mohammedanism nations ness Parsee passage philosopher Plato Plutarch priests quæ Quintilian quoted Ram Mohun Roy Roman says sects Shakespeare soul Southey's Wesley Stobæus Swaamee Narain sympathy of religions taught teaching Tennent's Christianity Tertullian Thibet tion tribes truth universal Vedas virtue Vishnu Purana Vishnu Sarman word Zoroaster αὐτοῖς αὐτὸς δὲ ζῆν καὶ κακῶς μὲν μὴ Οἱ ὅτι ὁ οὔτε ποιεῖ πρὸς τοῖς τὸν τοὺς φίλον ὡς
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Página 19 - What is now called the Christian religion has existed among the ancients, and was not absent from the beginning of the human race, until Christ came in the flesh ; from which time the true religion, which existed already, began to be called Christian.
Página 13 - Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life ? " The Master said, " Is not RECIPROCITY such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Página 15 - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
Página 27 - Macao) was completely destroyed :— a solitary instance in the history of the world of a pagan monarch preferring to destroy what would injure his subjects, rather than to fill his own pockets with its sale. The whole transaction will ever remain one of the most remarkable incidents in human history for its contrasts, and the great changes it introduced into China.
Página 25 - ... religion can claim as exclusively its own. Neither faith, nor love, nor truth, nor disinterestedness, nor forgiveness, nor patience, nor peace, nor equality, nor education, nor missionary effort, nor prayer, nor honesty, nor the sentiment of brotherhood, nor reverence for woman, nor the spirit of humility, nor the fact of martyrdom, nor any other good thing, is monopolized by any form of faith. All religions recognize, more or less remotely, these principles; all do something to exemplify, something...
Página 13 - He also is my beloved of whom mankind are not afraid, and who of mankind is not afraid; and who is free from the influence of joy, impatience, and the dread of harm. He my servant is dear unto me who is unexpecting, just and pure, impartial, free from distraction of mind, and who hath forsaken every enterprise.
Página 23 - So in India, Mohammedanism makes converts by thousands (according to Col. Sleeman, than whom there can be no more intelligent authority), where Christianity makes but a handful, and this he testifies, because in Mohammedanism there is no spirit of caste, while Christians have a caste of their own, and will not put converts on an equality. Do we rejoice in this great work of progress ? No ! One would think we were still in the time of the crusades by the way we ignore the providential value of Mohammedanism.
Página 27 - The delegation from the Society of Friends reported last year that an Indian chief brought a young Indian before a white commissioner to give evidence, and the commissioner hesitated a little in receiving a part of the testimony, when the chief said with great emphasis, " O you may believe what he says : he tells the truth ; he has never seen a white man before...
Página 32 - We shall cease trying to free men from one superstition by inviting them into another. The true missionaries are the men inside each religion who have outgrown its limitations. But no Christian missionary has ever yet consented to meet the men of other religions upon the common ground of Theism. In Bishop Heber's time, the Hindoo reformer, Swaamee Narain, was preaching purity and peace, the unity of God, and the abolition of caste.
Página 15 - A man who foolishly does me wrong (or regards me as being or doing wrong), I will return to him the protection of my ungrudging love; the more evil goes from him, the more good shall go from me.