good morals, and, therefore, that it is the true and divine
religion. Thus, every one must- admit that the Christian way is the way of virtue.
We have now seen that Christians are helped to behave virtuously by the work and labours of Christian ministers, by the instructions contained in the Bible, by Christian worship, and by the example of Christ, the Divine Guru, and on the other hand that Ilindis are destitute of these helps to virtue. It has also been seen, on a comparison of Christians and Hindés, that the former greatly excel the latter in morality.
Some of my readers may perhaps make the following objection:“There are many Christians who live immoral lives, and there are immoral people even amongst the white men; there are bad people in every relizion, and therefore there is no difference between Christianity and Hindiism.”
Answer. It does not follow that there is no difference between Christianity and Hind{lism, because there are bad people amongst Christians. Christians arc most strictly commanded by their religion to live virtuous lives, and, therefore, if a Christian practises vice, it is his own fault, not the fault of Christianity. Christians who live bad lives are traitors to their religion, and true Christians disclaim such persons as not being Christians at all. Hinddism, on the other hand, enjoins the worship of immoral gods, and, therefore, most Hindus seem scarcely to believe that it is their duty to be virtuous. If any of them acts unjustly and lives an immoral life, he only acts in accordance with the conduct of his gods, not in opposition thereto, and he
18 never disclaimed by his own people on account of his conduct as not being a true Hindi.