The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . the Christian sodecides his to be, is that it is about the only thinghe has which he thinks everybody else ought tohave. In affairs of the heart, business, the pursuitof wealth, the securing of worldly advantages, style,the possession of objects of art and what not, he isa protectionist; in religion alone is he a free trader. OBJECT IN GODS. I cannot say Hinduism appeals to me. It wouldbe strange if it did. To see on every side figuresso grotesque, many
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . the Christian sodecides his to be, is that it is about the only thinghe has which he thinks everybody else ought tohave. In affairs of the heart, business, the pursuitof wealth, the securing of worldly advantages, style,the possession of objects of art and what not, he isa protectionist; in religion alone is he a free trader. OBJECT IN GODS. I cannot say Hinduism appeals to me. It wouldbe strange if it did. To see on every side figuresso grotesque, many of them in fact hideous—night-mares which, expecting to have left in bed, you arestartled at meeting in broad day light. One cannotget away from them wherever he may go, and notuntil a Hindu friend who had been to the ChicagoExposition and was almost as familiar with NewYork, London, Paris and Berlin as with Bombay,brought me up standing, did I quite recover myequanimity when in godland. You believe in your Bible, do you not? saidhe. I certainly do, was my reply. In all of it, without reserve? Generally speaking, 62 AN OBJPXT LESSON IN GODS. What do you intend to convey by the qualifica-tion, generally? Well, til at in part it is figurative, or allegoricalif you please, in that the lesson is taught in themoral to be drawn, or as the gnostic would put it,the substance is not to be taken in its literal, but inits suggestive sense. This intending to apply, inthe main, to the Old Testament. What aboiit Revelation ? Included, I responded. Supposing, then, that instead of the narrativeof St. John being in words, or pictured, it weresculptured or, rather, modeled in wood or compo-sition, colored and decorated, say, as I have seenimages in Christian churches in your country, w^ouldyou feel any less strange amidst the representationsin tangible form of what you accept as symbolicalof your faith, than you do among those typifyingours? Surely, if you believe in Revelation youmust
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