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be exactly what the Christian’s Bible intends it to be, Take that 
sacred book of ours; handle reverently the whole volume ; search 
it through and through, from the first chapter to the last, and mark 
well the spirit that pervades the whole. You will find no limpness, 
no flabbiness about its utterances. Even sceptics who dispute its 
divinity are ready to admit that it is a thoroughly manly book. 
Vigour and manhood breathe in every page. It is downright and 
straightforward, bold and fearless, rigid and uncompromising. It 
tells you and me to be either hot or cold. If God be God, serve 
him. If Baal be God serve him. We cannot serve both. We 
cannot love both. Only one name is given among men whereby 
we may be saved. No other name, no other Saviour, more suited 
to India, to Persia, to China, to Arabia, is ever mentioned,—is ever 
hinted at. 
“¢What!’ says the enthusiastic student of the science of religion, 
‘do you seriously mean to sweep away as so much worthless waste 
paper all these thirty stately volumes of Sacred Books of the East 
just published by the University of Oxford ?’ 
“ No—not at all—nothing of the kind. On the contrary, we 
welcome these books. We ask every missionary to study their 
contents and thankfully lay hold of whatsoever things are true and 
of good report in them. But we warn him that there can be no 
greater mistake than to force these non-Christian Bibles into con- 
formity with some scientific theory of development, and then point 
to the Christian’s Holy Bible as the crowning product of religious 
evolution. So far from this, these non-Christian Bibles are all 
developments in the wrong direction. They all begin with some 
flashes of true light and end in utter darkness. Pile them, if you 
will, on the left side of your study table, but place your own Holy 
Bible on the right side—all by itself—all alone 
gap between. 
*¢ And now, I crave permission at least to give two good reasons 
for venturing to contravene, in so plain-spoken a manner, the 
favourite philosophy of the day. Listen to me, ye youthful 
students of the so-called Sacred Books of the East, search them 
through and through, and tell me, do they affirm of Vyasa, of 
Zoroaster, of Confucius, of Buddha, of Mohammed, what our Bible 
affirms of the Founder of Christianity—that He, a sinless Man, 
was made Sin? Not merely that He is the eradicator of sin, but 
that He, the sinless Son of man, was Himself made sin. Vyasa 
and the other founders of Hinduism enjoined severe penances, end- 
and with a wide 
