St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-20

hihuoO, r-NpOunu5 the Chris
tian Religion-An Likely to
Limit Gods Work to Certafn
untries-Universal Brother
hood-The New Religion.
At Unity Church last evening. Mr..
Nargarkar. of Bombay, India, a distin-
guished Hindoo scholar. gave most
interesting lecture on 1.-The Message of
the Barhmo Somaj.''
His remarks are here given in part:
We are all too likely to limit the work
of the spirit of God to certain countries
and to particular times. In our own
nigh estimate of ourselves We are guilty
of harboring ideas of this division of
Gods Spiril. 1t is on account of this
over-eStimate of our own belief that we
have gone on saying that certain class
of people were Gods particular and
chosen people. and it is this same spirit
that makes the Mohammedan say that
all those who do not believe as he does
are barbarians, and the proud Brahmin
thinks that every one living outside the
geographical limits of India is lost.
We are very blind in our belief that
His message came to chosen people at
a certain time, and we OF the Brahmo
SOmaj are constrained to believe that
Gods message TO the world is universal,
and that the spirit of God has descended
on all men according to their needs, and
that the nineteenth century people have
been blessed abundantly in proportion
as they have needed blessings. Can we
for one moment harbor the idea that
God will divorce Himself from His own
people now any more than in pre-ChriS-
tian or pre-Hebrew times. for in these
days of agnOsticism and proud RATIONAL
ism, the need of material revelation is
greater than ever, and God has sent
down freSher message, a newer Gospel
to all the nations of the earth.
If you will open your eye OF the spirit
you will see that the American people
are surcharged with ideas of the uni
versal brotherhood. What was the
parliament of religions IN Chicago, if
not symbol and token of the working
or Gods spirit on these liberal lines, no
matter what proud orthodoxy may say
to the contrary?
What is the message of the Brahmo
Somaj? do not mean the handful of
people who live on the banks of the
Ganges. but all members Of this liberal
church of God of the nineteenth cen
fury. All those are members of this
new diSpensation who are sincere in
their desire to shake off the shackleS of
orthodoxy, and lite matters little how
crude their ideas may be, so long as
they accept the message from heaven to
fallen humanity, and help to establish
the idea of the universal brotherhood,
irrespective of race or color. This is the
spirit of the new message; now what
are the key notes, what the basis?
The first Keynote is the unity of God.
the one, true and only never-ending
supreme presence. The veritieS are as
old as humanity itself, but owing to the
peyerSity OF men we seek the idols of
our own handicraft and fall on our
knees before them. You have in your
midst just as great a multiplicity of
gods in your divisions into trinity. and
have just as much need of having the
unity of God preached to you, as the
people who live on the banks of the
Ganges. This deridng of God is 4
pernicious habit. We need no medl-
our elder brother, with no difference in
species or kind, but in degree. This is
the true idea of the unity of God. The
second key note is the universally of
truth. The blessings of God are to be
found i'll every country ana cline, just
as are the natural blessings of the sun
and moon. Truth is the visible re-
Election of GOD, whether we find it
i'll the Christian Bible, or the MOham-
medan Koran. The third key note is
Harmony of Prophets. All religions
teachers have message of truth, and it
becomes the duty of Us who live in the
nineteenth century to see to ii that all
these truths are harmoniZed, and not al
low ourselves to be fed by one prophet,
but try ali. If you proclaim the idea of
unrestricted trade in secular commerce,
then why not, if Mohammed speaks,
make his idea yours, and then in unity
ing all truths we must sit at the feet of
Budha as we'll as Christ.
The fourth kew note is more impOrt
ant. in the old testament the soYer-
eighty of God is spoken OF. III the new
the fatherhood OF God. The harmony,
unity, and universally of the Brahms
SUmaj must come the motherhood of
God.
The human mother is DO comparison
to the divine motherhood of God, and if
we can make spiritual effort sufficient
to grasp this new relationship, it would
make tor you very kingdom of God
upon eartn, and all outward difficulties
will disappear in the air. Let us then
not bother ourselves about the geo.
graphy of heaven, or the anatomy of
God, but seek in our age to grasp tue
new message of the Brahmo Somai.
Mr.. Nagarkar will deliver lecture
Wednesday evening, at Unity church,
at s O'Clock p. M. on the religions of
India, and, having been a Brahmin be-
fore he became identified the Brahmo
Somaj, he will trace very Interestingly
the religious development in that coun-
try.