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Christian temples being thus common to all, it may be concluded that Christianity also is fitted to be the religion of all.
3. The benefits of the Christian religion are common lo all. Hinditism has no benefits to confer upon any one, hut even supposing that it had, its benefits are not the common property of all Hinds. Hinddism is found in this country alone; and the people of this country, being split up into different castes, are accustomed to make invidious distinctions even in matters pertaining to religion. They have different inaugural rites and different teachings, different usages and different heavens, in accordance with differences in peoples caste and condition. There are distinctions made even in the burning ground.
Christians on the other hand, whatever may be their country and to whatever rauk in life they may belong, inherit all the blessings of Christianity in common, in the same way as relations inherit an“ undivided Hindi estate.”
The salvation promised to Christians is declared to be© the common salvation.” Christianity teaches that the true God loves all men; that the Divine Saviour died to redeem all: that the church, the association of Christians, invites aud accepts all; that the Bible contains profitable instruction for all; that the gate of prayer, whereby the grace of God is besought, stands open to all; that all true Christians are delivered from their sins by faith in the one Saviour; that
there is but onc way, the way of virtue, appointed for all to walk in; that all believers receive comfort in all time of adversity and at the hour of death; and that the entire
company of the holy throughout the world will at last meet
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