VML-9/10/01

[Guest guest]

This, brethren, is a short sketch of the religious ideas of the Hindus. The

Hindu may have failed to carry out all his plans, but if there is ever to

be a universal religion, it must be one which will have no location in

place or time; which will be infinite like the God it will preach, and

whose sun will shine upon the followers of Krishna and of Christ, on saints

and sinners alike; which will not be Brahminic or Buddhistic, Christian or

Mohammedan, but the sum total of all these. and still have infinite space

for development; which in its catholicity will embrace in infinite arms,

and find a place for, every human being from the lowest grovelling savage,

not far removed from the brute, to the highest man towering by the virtues

of his head and heart almost above humanity, making society stand in

awe of him and doubt his human nature.