This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...British Government, and made a judge. In answer to the question, -"What is Jesus Christ to you?" he said: "There in my bedroom hangs the picture that is the greatest inspiration of my life, the picture of Christ crucified on the cross, that I may see it night and morning. Every night before I go to bed I read the Bible ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...British Government, and made a judge. In answer to the question, -"What is Jesus Christ to you?" he said: "There in my bedroom hangs the picture that is the greatest inspiration of my life, the picture of Christ crucified on the cross, that I may see it night and morning. Every night before I go to bed I read the Bible. I have not only read it through, but have read it again and again. My favorite passages are John's gospel and Paul's practical epistles to the Corinthians. Every morning from six to seven I spend in meditation and prayer and hymns before I go out for the day, and I draw my inspiration from Jesus Christ, and his power to uplift the outcast and the depressed. None other has inspired such social consciousness. I am a Christian--though not baptized, not on the records of the Christian Church. The Kingdom may not be coming as you would like it, but it is coming nevertheless. The ideas that lie at the heart of the Christian Gospel are permeating every department of Hindu thought and society, and the Kingdom is coming in India." 2. Buddha, with marked insight, taught that the self-seeking grasping life is unsaved, and that death produces no essentially moral change. The cause of man's misery is within himself, and it is not necessary for him to look elsewhere for salvation. But Buddha's only remedy was the negative one of suppressing all desire--a process which forever focuses thought on self. Not in nobly giving out the self in some objective venture as Christ would have us do, but in quenching all such outreach does Buddha find salvation. There is thus a fundamental pessimism at the bottom of his message, for he held that misery is inevitably connected with life in every form. In the absence of all constructive optimism and in ...
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