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faining: to the perfection of man’s nature,’ to be he oternal source of 
life and holiness to his people. 
“The two unparalleled declarations quoted by me ae om our Holy 
Bible make a gulf between it and the so-called Sacred Books of the 
East which sever the one from the other utterly, hopelessly, and for 
_ ever,—not a mere rift which may be easily closed up, not a mere rift 
across which the Christian and the non-Christian may shake hands 
and interchange similar ideas in regard to essential truths, but a 
veritable gulf which cannot be bridged over by any science of — 
religious thought; yes, a bridgeless chasm which no theory of — 
evolution can ever span. Go forth, then, ye missionaries, in your 
Master’s name ; go forth into all the world, and, after studying all its 
false religions and philosophies, go forth and fearlessly proclaim to 
suffering humanity the plain, the unchangeable, the eternal facts of 
the gospel,—nay, I might almost say, the stubborn, the unyielding, 
the inexorable facts of the gospel. Dare to be downright with all 
the uncompromising courage of your own Bible, while with it your 
watchwords are love, joy, peace, reconciliation. Be fair, be 
charitable, be Christ-like, but let there be no mistake. Let it 
be made absolutely clear that Christianity can not, must not, be 
watered down to suit the palate of either Hindu, Parsee, Con- 
fucianist, Buddhist, or Mohammedan, and that whosoever wishes 
to pass from the false religion to the true can never hope to do so 
by the rickety planks of compromise, or by the help of faltering 
hands held out by half-hearted Christians. He. must leap the gulf 
in faith, and the living Christ will spread his es arms 
beneath and land him safely on the Eternal Rock.” 
