The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . ne and All Powerful Judge. Hisfirst prayer upon rising is, * Whatever sin I havecommitted by night, in thought, word or deed, mayit be cancelled by day. Whatever sin is in me mayit be forever removed. XXII. FOREVER STALKS. The belief in tlie passing of the soul at death toa further embodiment in other living things, in theabstract is not peculiar to the Hindu, or is it es-pecially so to the Eastern peoples as a whole. Allof us appear to have a touch of the excogitative
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . ne and All Powerful Judge. Hisfirst prayer upon rising is, * Whatever sin I havecommitted by night, in thought, word or deed, mayit be cancelled by day. Whatever sin is in me mayit be forever removed. XXII. FOREVER STALKS. The belief in tlie passing of the soul at death toa further embodiment in other living things, in theabstract is not peculiar to the Hindu, or is it es-pecially so to the Eastern peoples as a whole. Allof us appear to have a touch of the excogitativein such direction, and an honest confession wouldshow that now and then almost everybody is in-clined to a little rioting of the imagination withmetempsychosis the centre and circumference. It was not unknown in the early days of Chris-tianity. Several Fathers of the Church openly ad-vocated the reasonableness of the theory with NewTestament quotations to support it. Plato wasdrawn to it, as also other ancients of classicalrenown. Justin Martyrs advocacy was of a thou-sand years spent in a restored and beautified Jerusa-. I^ORKVKR STAI^KS. 159 iem, which TertuUian assented to, with the addedtransport, that the city was to be divinely built andlet down from heaven. Latter day arguments have found those who couldbe swayed by them to regard the transmigrationform of purgatory as the more rational, and ingreater conformity with Gods general plan ofprogression, than the more or less dormant conditionascribed to other purgatorial processes. However,these, at the best merely inferential propositions, byno means illustrate the Hindu position on the ques-tion. In fact, to him there is no question to beentertained. It is an absolute certainty. There is no appreciable difference in the religiousman as concerns his faith in God, between the oneway there may be prescribed to attain to Him, oranother. Because the Hindu has little or no fearof hell fire and brimstone, or knowledge of ortho-do
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