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Caste was to be subordinated to
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Kabir (keberl, Hindu religious
Performer, was a weaver and probably
Mussulman by birth who lived be-
tween 14SS and 1872. His teaching ex-
ercised an important influence in up
per India in the fifteenth and sixteen
| tn centuries
Rammohun Roy was born In India
about 1774. He was the first great
modern theistical reformer of India.
He believed in one God. especially
La personal God. His father was q
Brahaman, and his grandfather had
been an officer of the ,Mogul emperors.
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 It's fountain head
He learned several languages in order
to read their sacred books. At twenty
he returned and resumed his Sankrit
studies, at the same time learning
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 a
society which has since taken the
name of Brahmasamal In 1881 he Wis
tied England where he spent the re-
naming two years of his life.
His work was carried on by Deben-
.dranath Tagore who organized the
first theistic church of India lbeliey-1
ing in q God especially personal
God). This has exercised powerful
Influence against idolatry, and great
III promoted social reform.
Keshabchandra Sen. the third great
theistic reformer of British India, was
born In 1888 and died In 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.
It 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 /
for atonement of self. or better, hui
manly 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
lion, and salvation is the life of Chris
Eianity.
Jesus Christ Is. as much the repre-
sentative Of human nature as He Is
The manifestation OF God. He is the
Son of man. no less than the Son
,f God In the Old 4estafient times,
God spake to the people through
Moses and the Prophets, but Of only
1ne said He at any time, This is
ny beloved son. In whom / am well
pleased; hear We him. Jesus the
Christ claimed his oneness with the
Father, and he said. s. am the way,
he truth, and the life: no man come
b unto the Father. but by me. Vel
luote again his own words, For God
10 loved the world that he gave his
,nly begotten son. that whosoeyer be-
ieveth In him should not perish, but
rave eternal life. For God sent not
he Son into the world to Judge the
world but that the world should be
'aved through Him.