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Ten Great Religions

CHAPTER I
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It is not to be classified with the other religions, since it does not share their one family fault.

In every other instance we can touch with our finger the weak place, the empty side.

Is there any such weak side in Christianity?
It is the office of Comparative Theology to answer.
The positive side of Brahmanism we saw to be its sense of spiritual realities.

That is also fully present in Christianity.

Not merely does this appear in such New Testament texts as these: "God is spirit," "The letter killeth, the spirit giveth life": not only does the New Testament just graze and escape Pantheism in such passages as "From whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things," "Who is above all, and through all, and in us all," "In him we live and move and have our being," but the whole history of Christianity is the record of a spiritualism almost too excessive.


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