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and as not possessed of omnipresence on account of his having a form . Because all these errors , namely , the plurality of Gods , their sensual indulgence , and their locality , are applicable to themselves in a complete deo-ree .
* ' To say that every thing , however contrary to the laws of nature , is possible with God , will equally afford a pretence to Missionaries and Hindoos in support of their respective incarnations . The aged Vyas has spoken truth in the Muhabharut ; ' O king ,
a person sees the faults of another , although they are like the grains of mustard seed , but although his own faults are as big as the Bel fruit , seeing them he cannot see them / Moreaver , the Poorans say , that the names , forms , and sensual indulgence of God ,
which we have mentioned , are fictitious , and we have so spoken with a view to engage the minds of persons of weak understanding ; but the missionary gentlemen say , that the account which is given in the Bible of the names , forms , and sensual
indulgence of God is real . Therefore , the plurality of Gods , their locality and subjection to sensual indulgence , are faults to be found in a real sense only in the system of the missionary gentlemen . "
Here we perceive how completely the Missionaries , by pre ^ chmg the dogma of the Trinity , as the ^ iraenee of Christianity , contravene all the good purposes which they might accomplish by adhering * to the strict unity . They render useless tlieir own
exertions ; they bring disrespect on the religion itself ; and actually encourage the Hindoos to retort the charge of Poly theisin and idol worship as existing in recltiy ^ vXyf against the Christian scheme * 6 y such , a process how can it be hoped , that any attempts will be successful ift diffusing the truths and blessings of Ckristianity ?
ine Bramuns complain of what ^ y call an unfair artifiee of controversy employed by the Missidiaries . xhey quote books of no authority , and call these < fuotsrtions the Hindoo Mth . Havin g translated these wo * ks / > sa the Bi » am > uns , 4 i which are op ~ Posed to the Veds , whfch are not quoted by any respectable author , and ** o | eh have never been regarded as
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authority , they aiwrays represent the Hindoo religion as very base . " Instances of this practice are given . It is now nearly two years since this controversy was begun in Calcutta , and we cannot but express surpr ise , that our orthodox brethren , whose * intftr € » onrRP . with all fchf *
missioaary establishments i » » o direct and constant , should never have favoured the public with any notice of its progress . If a Missionary goes a day ' s journey from bis post , and leaves ten tracts in one village , and five in another , % nd talks to half a dozen ignorant natives in another , everv
orthodox journal and paper in the country is sure to tell the tale , with all tfcte formality of time , place and circumstance * But when a controversy is commenced on subjects of the utmost importance , between the learned men of the College at Serampore , and the no less learned natives around
them , not a whisper do we hear of so remarkable an event from the sources whence , on ail other occasions , we are made acquainted with the minutest details of missionary transactions in
every eorner of the world . We forbear to ask any questions . Let our readers judge of the merits of the case by the extracts we have made from the Bramunical Magazine .
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Correspondence with the Editor relating" to R&mmohun Roy . rjTtjHE first of the two following let-JL ters is referred to in our Correspondence > p . 432 . When we there acknowledged it , we had no id 6 a of making any public use of it ; ftut
having since had an interview with Mr . Buckingham , the highly intelligent and patriotic Editor of the Calcutta Joifrnal , who is now in England , we put it into' hid hande > aad hfeivereceived from him the following letter in reply , which will be gratifying to our readers . To render Mr .
Buckiftgliamte communication Intelligible , it is necessary to publish the lefrter that gave rise to it , though it contains one passage at least which we are the reluctant instruments of circulating , and which we could not have admitted
into our pages if it had not been followed by Mr . Buckingham ' s satisfactory confutation .
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Correspondence with the Editor relating * to Rammokun R&p . 439
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1823, page 439, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1787/page/7/
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