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Excerpt from Four Lectures Delivered in Substance to the Brahmos in Bombay and Poona: In April and July 1875
And indeed a man is not worthy of the' name of man if he does not know his maker, preserver, and benefactor, that is God. If he does not admire, praise, thank, worship and pray to Him, and does not love, honour, fear, and obey him. If he does not love virtue and try to avoid vice; does not strive tobe holy, humble, meek, and loving; does not believe in a future state of existence. For to know God and to do these things is the essential characteristic of man, without which he is not a man but a brute, whatever else he may possess - learning, wealth, power, or anything else. This, I presume, is your opinion also, and therefore you have adopted a religion, Thei'sm, and worship God and offer, Him prayers and praises, and try to regulate your conduct according to the rules of that religion. You greatly value this religion and think you cannot do without it. But do you not consider this, that _you would never have known this religion which you now profess, that is, you would never have been able to frame this religion for your selves, unless your minds had been enlightened by Christianity, directly or indirectly; that is, by becoming acquainted with its truths directly from the mouth of its professors, and from books written purposely to set forth the doctrines and precepts of Christianity, or from other books based upon the teaching of Christianity, and deriving from it all the religious or moral truths that are contained in them. And this fact appears to me, and has always appeared, to be a sufficient reason for your embracing Christianity. But whether I can make you see this matter as I do see it I cannot tell; I will, however, trusting in God's blessing, try to do so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
