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sects, seem to show that this movement, however popular it may be 

 at the present day among the classes who are not prepared to accept 

 Christianity as placed before them by the missionaries of India, 

 has been adopted by them as a sort of half-way house which they 

 think will bring them into a sort of concord with the progress of 

 western civilization, and yet enable them to retain a good deal of 

 the faith of their fathers. 



This seems to me to be the lesson which the paper places 

 before us. 



General EoBixsox. — Perhaps I might say a few words on this 

 subject, having lived in India. 



I am afraid what the Secretary has just said is not what we 

 should wish. I am afraid there is a great tendency in reforming 

 Hindus to avoid Christianity. The Brahm Samaj was a good 

 thing which brought India much nearer to Christianity ; but Arya 

 Samaj is an attempt to bring Hinduism into line with modern 

 science. Its adherents are very bitter against Christians and 

 Christianity, and it is a great trouble to our missionaries in India. 



The Indian has learnt to despise his own religion, Brahmanism, 

 and he sees that it is not a scientific religion. He wants, therefore, 

 to make his religion a scientific religion. We see by this lecture 

 how miserably he has failed, and we must trust that the result of 

 this attempt will not in the end be a lasting one. Fortunately he 

 is so very unscientific in his proposals that he will be left out by 

 the modern Hindu who gains his teaching at Cambridge and Oxford 

 and knows better. Therefore I trust something better will arise in 

 India than the Arya Samaj. (Hear, hear.) 



Professor Orchard. — I am afraid I should be disposed to say 

 that this faith shows no advance whatever in a religious or 

 philosophical point of view at least. 



Dr. Griswold has brought before us a very remarkable man — a 

 man whose mind was ethical rather than religious and practical 

 rather than philosophical. This sage was undoubtedly a man of 

 great natural shrewdness, sagacity, acuteness, and natural fore- 

 sight. He no doubt thought when he brought western ideas into 

 enlistment in his protest against idolatry, that by the simplicity of 

 the worship he enjoined on his fellows, he was doing service to his 

 country ; but this sect that he founded — this Arya Samaj — will, I 

 think, not be remembered on the ground of any philosophical or 



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