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Listen to some considerations which tend to prove that Christianity is the one religion which is fitted to become universal.
1. The Bible, or sacred book of the Christian religion, i$ common to all. It contains instructions which are needed by all men, and therefore all may freely rcad it; but all persons are not permitted to read the sacred books of other religions.
The four Vidas, which were composed by the Brihmans of this country, are kept concealed in the Sanscrit Janguage. Not a single portion of them is to be found in Tamil, Telugu, or the other languages which are spoken in India at the present day. Moreover, though the Brilumans chant the Vidas, it is not their custom in general to read or study them, and many of them have not the smallest idea of their meaning. The DBrihmans boast that their Vidas are the word of Brahmi, and the source of divine wisdom; but if they were honest in making this boast they surely would not hinder men, who are God’s own offspring, from reading his word and growing in wisdom. European scholars desiring to ascertain the contents of every book in this country, and to judge whether they are true or false, useful or wuscless, have learnt Sanskrit, and translated the Vidas into English and other European languages, and they are now engaged in printing them. Ilence all the natives of this country who have learnt Iinglish have now the means of reading and cxamining the Rig Vida for themselves. If they will only take the trouble of examining it they will certainly conclude that the Vidas after all are not gold, but only brass, that they do not contain the
spiritual food which man’s soul requires, and that in one
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