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IS 223.2 Story of an Emigrant.
nearly three thousand people, consisting chiefly of persons
of influence and high rank, among the cultured Hindoos of
the capital. The speaker was listened to with the greatest
attention and respect, and the impression he made could not
but be beneficial and lasting. I sat very close to the speaker,
and took pains to notice his ways and manners while
speaking to the large audience. His bearing in the pulpit made a
remarkable impression, especially when, under the influence
of some absorbing and transporting thought, his body was
stretched out to its full height, and seemed to grow by the
glow of inspiration. He was at that time a man of about
forty-five years of age, of robust health, of symmetrical
proportions, and with a face which beamed with intelligence
and enthusiasm. The fame of this man is not limited to his
native land, for even in Great Britain, where he spent several
months a few years ago, he is very highly respected by
thinking men and women of all classes who are devoted to the
progress and improvement of mankind, and in his own
country he is almost idolized. His faith, as far as
formulated in definite language, coincides with that of the
Unitarians of America, although he called it unitrinitarian, i.e., he
believed in one God, the Creator of the world and the father
of all men; and also in Christ and the Holy Spirit as
revelations of the divine, which is one but not as three different
persons in the deity. He believed that the propagation of
true religion in the world has been greatly impeded by
what he called the idolatry which in Christian countries
has grown up around the human person of Jesus Christ,
manifested as in the flesh, and he begged the missionaries
who came to India not to confuse the minds of the
Hindoos by any such idea as a deity consisting of three different
persons; polytheism had been the curse of India from time
immemorial.
Such are the main features of the teaching of this reformer
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