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i ! partif it, by annouvcing a lecture on “The Superiority of Hinduism to every other Existing Religion.” This was meeting Christians in a very unusual way. The lecturer held that Hindooism was “superior” because it owed, it: ፲}:ኒ፣nይ Iየ፡ }}Q ከኽዃክ ; a'kuowledged no mediator between God and man; because the Hindoo worships God at all times, in business and pleasure, and every thing; because , while other Scriptures inculcate the practice of piety and virtue for the sake of eternal happiness, the Hindo) Scriptures alone in intain that God should be worshipped for the sake of God alone, and virtue practised for the sake of virtue alone; because Hindooism inculcates universal benevolence, while other faiths merely refer to man; because Hindooism is non-sectario, (believing that all faiths are good), non-proselytizing, pre-eminently tolerant, devotional to an entire abstraction of the mind from time and sense, and the concentration of it on the Divine; of an autiquity running back to the infancy of the human race, and from that time till upw influencing ia alt particulars, the greatest affairs of the state and the most minute assairs of domestic life. These are some of the points insistel upon by the lecturer and many a long day will it be, í fear, before we shali alter the people's faith in these points which they can reason about as cloverly as any Englishmuan among our be; theologians here and with a surprising power of illustration ,srom تاري history of nations. The lecture was replied to on another evening by the printipal of the Free Church Coliege, in the College Hall, and he was met there by several disputants on the previous lecturel's ground by whom his views were roundly questioned. This of itself will show how uecessary it is to have an able and thoroughly educated class of men as missionaries in India. The Christian lecturer (an able and gentlemanly sholar) claimed to include among the sacred books of the Hindus the Tantras (Darshanas 8), A young Hindu, writing inmediately after,asked, Why, then do not Chaistians include among their sacred Scriptues the works of Duns Scotus and 'l'hoinas Aquinas ? 13. the point discussed what it may, it will not be doubted that in dealing with, such persons the only weapon of the olightest use is reason. ~ * জাতীয় সভায় সনাতন ধৰ্ম্মরক্ষিণী সভার সভাপতি শ্ৰল । শ্ৰযুক্ত রাজা কালীকৃষ্ণদেৰ বাহাদুরের বক্তত হইতে উদ্ধৃত। “ বিগত সভার কার্য বিবরণে বাবু রাজনারায়ণ বসু মহাশয়ের পত্রে পাঠ করিয়ু উষ্ঠীর প্রগাঢ় বুদ্ধিমত্ত ও শীলতার পরিচয় প্রাপ্ত হইয়। আমি পরম সন্তোষ লাভ করিয়াছি, তজ্জন্য তিনি সাধুবাদের ভাজন হইয়াছেন ' r কলিকাতা, ১১ মাঘ, ১৭৯৪ শক o * শ্ৰী রাজনারায়ণ বসু |