The Kingdom in India, its progress and its promise . ven. Fellow disciples of Christ Jesus ! In this truth lies 36 The Religions of the Orient our power ; not in the fierce denunciation of theerrors of those systems which we are seeking to sup-plant, but, acknowledging whatever of truth they docontain, and using it as a help, our power lies inpresenting in the most vivid light this higher truth,higher than they ever conceived of, even in theirmost rapturous dreams, Jesus the divine, the sympa-thizing, the all-sufficient help-giver, and burden-bearer come to our aid. Yes, in this truth lies our
The Kingdom in India, its progress and its promise . ven. Fellow disciples of Christ Jesus ! In this truth lies 36 The Religions of the Orient our power ; not in the fierce denunciation of theerrors of those systems which we are seeking to sup-plant, but, acknowledging whatever of truth they docontain, and using it as a help, our power lies inpresenting in the most vivid light this higher truth,higher than they ever conceived of, even in theirmost rapturous dreams, Jesus the divine, the sympa-thizing, the all-sufficient help-giver, and burden-bearer come to our aid. Yes, in this truth lies ourpower ; our power for work in the home land ; ourpower for work at the ends of the earth. How itchallenges us to obedience ; how it energizes us for theconflict in the carrying out of that Saviours ascend-ing behest, Go, evangelize all the nations! The key is furnished us ; the incentive, the con-straining love of Christ, is limitless; the leverage isadequate. Come on, Immanuers followers ! let us liftthe world/or Christ, through Christ, to ni THE BOOK THAT SHALL SUPPLANT THEVEDAS; THE BIBLE TESTED IN INDIA **The law of the Lord is perfect (David). THE word 4aw, or the expression Hhelawof the Lord/^ is used in two senses in theBible: the first confines it to the law ofMoses. On a journey home from India, after passing upthrough the length of the Eed Sea to Egypt, I turnedaside and went down through the desert and came toand climbed up to the summit of Mount Sinai. Istood on the very spot where, thirty-three centuriesbefore, amid thunderings and lightnings, that lawwas delivered by Jehovah to Moses. I looked out onthat beautiful, triangular plain, some five miles longby three broad, shut in by high mountains on everyside, and coming to the foot of the almost perpendic-ular Sinai—^Hhe mount that might be touched^—from every part of which plain the summit of themount might be seen, and the cloud resting on themount. I remembered that, when that law was de-livered, all
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