Christianity Contrasted with Hind U Philosophy

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... friends which, in the current expositions of them, appear to be so strange as to render it scarcely credible that a thinking person should seriously entertain them. It occurs to me that I may in some measure perform what you require of me by giving you--to the best of my recollection--an account of a conversation, on the subject of " Matter," which took place the other evening..You know Eusebius, our indefatigable missionary. He had just returned, rather wearied, from preaching all day amidst the noise and distraction of a meld, or religious fair; but he brightened up as ho saw the inquiring young Brahman, Taradatt, approaching. Eusebius and I had been sitting on the high bank that overhangs the Ganges, where the sacred stream glides past the garden of the excellent Philoxenus. By the strangest of coincidences, Lawrence happened to be with us. You know Lawrence, with his huge quantity of reading, and his frequent, or, rather, habitual, absence of mind. Taradatt smiled as he sat down and addressed Eusebius. " You have been labouring to enlighten the holiday makers at the meld to-day, my dear Sir, if one may judge from your jaded look." "You have guessed rightly," replied Eusebius; but why do you smile?" "At the amusing inexhaustibleness of your patience," replied the other. " Surely," exclaimed Eusebius, " you do not expect that I shall ever give up labouring in my vocation from despair at the apparent ineffectualness of my efforts? It is my part to labour; it belongs to God to give the increase in his own good time." Taradatt.--My being a Hindu does not prevent me from appreciating and honouring your perseverance in the face of difficulties. But I could not help smiling at the thought of the discouragements to which you must have been exposed...