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Excerpt from Keshub Chunder Sen's English Visit Powerful than now, the mass of mankind, must be filled full with human and genial warmth, in close sympathy with every instinct and need bf man, regardful of the just title of every faculty of {his nature, apt to associate with and make its own all, under whatever name, which goes to enrich and enlarge the patrimony of our race. (cheers) This is most true. One of the strongest claims put forward in the New Testament as a ground for the reverence due to the Founder of Christianity, was that He was the light that lighteneth every man that cometh into the world. One of the highest aspira tions breathed concerning this by the ancient Prophets was (almost in the very words with which our eminent guest has made us familiar), that He was to be the inheritance alike of Europe and of Asia. It was always said to be one Of the most striking proofs of the heavenly origin of our religion, that, having sprung from the East, it was able to conquer and assimilate the West 3 and that proof would be redoubled if, having become European and Western, it is enabled to win back unto itself the higher intelligences of the remoter East. This can only be by fixing our minds on that common element in the various Churches of Christendom which presents our faith at once in its most sublime and its most attractive aspect. The day, thank God, has gone by in which the idea of a common Christianity, independent of the differences which separate the various. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, ho