Word: christianizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Eliot's first point against the religions of India, China and Japan is that they have not reached any spiritual conception of the deity. Now if it is meant that the man on the street has not such a conception, we can say the same thing of any country, Christian or pagan. But if it is meant that even the thoughtful members of Asiatic communities have not had such a conception, either at present or in the past, this would betray an absolute ignorance of the Bhaktidoctrine of India which has been in existence there ever since...
...this length into this matter except for the fact that it is the utterance of a man of President Eliot's reputation, culture, and experience and before persons who are, most of them, perhaps destined to come into contact, as missionaries, with the much wronged Asiaties. If the Christian missionary activity requires things as these to kindle their well-nigh expiring zeal for their cause, it is safe to predict that a terrible disillusion is soon at hand for them...
...Japan. The Eastern races have no conception of the brotherhood of man. For instance, if a woman in Canton were to fall in a river before the eyes of a hundred men, they would let her drown. Nor have these foreign peoples any spiritual conception of the Deity. Christianity has before it the task of carrying the spiritual conception of the Deity into foreign lands. With it will go the consecration of the affections of the family. The most striking difference between Christian and Eastern religions lies in the conceptions of activity, of doing things for the benefit of others...
...class on "Essentials of the Christian Faith" will hold its fourth meeting in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. Professor H. W. Magoun, Ph.D., of Oberlin will give a talk on "The Reality of Prayer...
...fourth meeting of the class in "Essentials of the Christian Faith" will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. Professor H. W. Magoun. Ph.D., of Oberlin, will speak on "The Reality of Prayer...