Comparative Religion, Its Genesis and Growth (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... at Sacramento, which was to be made the base of a widespread and persistent propaganda. Should the enterprise be deliberately endorsed by the Buddhist authorities in Japan, it will be safe to predict that no mistake will be made in regard to the men chosen to engineer this formidable undertaking. Not any candidates, but only the pick of the candidates, --not ordinary qualifications, but only qualifications of a specially high order, --will be deemed sufficient to meet the exigencies of so exacting a demand. And if Christianity is to make any radical and permanent impression upon the great non-Christian world, --especially upon the educated and more thoughtful portion of it, --it must be remembered that no miracle is likely to be wrought on behalf of those who are too niggardly, or too indifferent, or too blind, to take the trouble to help themselves. Men must be secured who are fully competent and sufficiently sympathetic to guide and instruct those whose religious convictions sink deep, and who have not the faintest desire to substitute any new Faith for their own. Accordingly, Missionary Colleges of a distinctly superior order must be established and maintained, both in the homeland and in every foreign missionary field, if Christianity would hope successfully to hold and enlarge the place she now occupies among her numerous and powerful competitors. 3. The Universities And Theological Schools Come Into Line With The Change In Current Popular Sentiment.--In seeking to summarise what the leading Universities and Theological Schools of the world have thus far achieved in this direction, and also to present a great multiplicity of details in a form that will be at once compact and clear, it has seemed wise to throw these particulars (whic