Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-11-07

Caste was TO be subordinated to
Krishna.
Kabirs tkeberl. a fIindn religious
reformer. was q weaver and probably
Mnssulman by birth who lived be
tween l4SS and 1512. His teaching ex.
Iercised an important influence In up.
per India In the fifteenth and sixteen
tn centuries. (. 4
Rammohun Roy was born in India
about 1774. He was the first great
modern theisticaI reformer OF India.
He, believed In one God, especially
personal God. His father was q
Brahaman, and his grandfather had
been an officer of the Mogul cmperors.
Disguised with the extrayagant Hin
du mythology. at sixteen he composed
tract against idolatry. Prosecuted, he
fled to Benares and then to Tibet,
that he might converse with Buddhist
priests. being determined to study
each religion at its fountain head
He learned several languages in order
to read their sacred books. At twenty
he returned and resumed his Sankrft
studies, at the same time learning
English. After his fathers death in
1903, his antagonism to idolatry be-
came more marked, and he set on
foot the movement which resulted. In
1880 in abolishing the self-immolation
of widows. He formed at Calcutta o
society which has since taken the
name Of Brahmasamai. In 1881 he Wis
tied England where he spent the re-
manning two years of his life.
His work was carried on by Deben-
dranath Tagore who organized the
first theistic church Of India fbeliev-
ing in a God especially q personal
Cod. This has exercised powerful
influence against idolatry, and great
ly promoted social reform.
Keshab chandra Sen, the third great
theistic reformer of British India, was
born In 1888 and died Ia 1884. Under.
his leadership the Brahinasamaj, or
theistic church, was led to break with
almost all the traditional usages
spared by his predecessors, even the
distinction of caste.
Judaism and Christianity.
1t hardly seems necessary for me to
take up the life Of Moses, the great
leader of Judaism; and you all are
equally wamiliar with the miraculous
birth. the life. teachings. death and !
redemption of Jesus the Christ.
The Christian religion, pure and
simple, is one left on earth by Christ,
the Son Of God, all In principle and
not in any kind of detail, The religion
Of Christ, like Christ, ultimately aims
Tor atonement of self or better, hui
mainly with God. BY. Christ. One |
must believe Jesus as his only Sa-
viour before he can be called Chris
tain, for Jesus came To- bring saliva
ion, and salvation Is the life Of Chris
.ianity. 81 -
Jesus Christ is as much the repre-
sentative of human nature as He is |
he manifestation OF God. He Is the |
Son of maj" no less than the nSon |
II God. In the Old Testanent times.
Tod spake to the people through |
Noses and the Prophets, but Of only |
me said He at any time, This is |
ny beloved son, In whom / am we'll |
,ieased; hear ye him. Jesus the /
christ claimed his oneness With the I
Father. and he said, u am the way,
he truth, and the HE mo man come /
h unto the Father, but by me. We
luote again his own words, For God
10 loved the world. that he gaYe his /
MY begotten son, that whosoever be-
ieveth in him should not perish, but
lave eternal life. For God sent not /
he Son into the world to Judge the /
world: but that the world should be /
iayed through Him.