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"O Agni, make dumb the mouth of this my enemy." "O Agni, fasten with a
peg the tongue of this my enemy." "O Agni, reduce to ashes this my
enemy."
How different, my dear children, is the religion of Jesus from the
religion of which I have been giving you a description. No precepts
teach us that we may injure or destroy our enemies. On the contrary,
they teach us to love them, and do them good. Let me repeat to you some
of the words which our Saviour spoke on this point. "Ye have heard that
it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy;
but I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do
good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you
and persecute you, that ye may be the children of your Father which is
in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good,
and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."
One of the young Hindoos in Dr. Duff's school in Calcutta, when reading
the above and similar passages, was so struck with the difference
between these precepts and the precepts of his Shasters, that he could
not but exclaim "O, how beautiful, how divine. Surely this is the
truth--this is the truth--this is the truth.
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