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AUTHOR'S PREFACE
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first banded themselves together us a nation.
For who
can doubt that our blessed religion was originally that of
Who can doubt that it would have
the whole world ?
exercised universal sway from the days of Adam to the
end of time if its original form as established by God
Himself and its primitive traditions had been carefully
Unfortunately human passion gained the
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upper hand. Whole nations were corrupted, and men
made for themselves a religion more suited to the depravity
Nevertheless, what has now become
of their own hearts.
They
of the innumerable deities of Greece and Rome ?
have vanished like an empty, transitory dream. Let us
pray that the Almighty may be pleased to allow the torch
of Truth to illumine the countries watered by the Ganges
Doubtless the time is still far distant when the stubborn
Hindu will open his eyes to the light and tear himself
away from his dark superstitions but let us not despair,
a day will come when the standard of the Cross will be
flying over the temples of India as it flies now over her
!
;
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Certain statements to be found in
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my
work
will
seem
almost incredible to my readers. All th