These are works of the
devil which the Son of GOD was manifested to destroy. But there is
much in the higher religious thought of paganism which Christ comes
not to destroy but to fulfil, and Christianity can fulfil and
interpret to the higher religions of paganism just that which is
truest and most positive in their own spiritual message. Conversely,
it is probable that there are in Christianity itself elements which
will only be fully interpreted and understood when the spiritual
genius of nations at present pagan has made its proper contribution to
Christian thought. For our own sake as well as for theirs it is
important that the nations should be evangelized and brought to a
knowledge of the truth. When we say the Lord's Prayer we are praying,
among other things, for the success of Christian Missions.
And if Christianity contains within itself the true solution of the
problem of comparative religion, it contains also, in germ and
potentiality, the solution of the problems of race and caste, and of
the international problem also.
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