Christianity is the mediator, able to mediate, not by standing between both, but by standing beside both.

It can lead the Hindoos to an Infinite Friend, a perfect Father, a Divine Providence, and so make the possibility for them of a new progress, and give to that ancient and highly endowed race another chance in history.

What they want is evidently moral power, for they have all intellectual ability.

The effeminate quality which has made them slaves of tyrants during two thousand years will be taken out of them, and a virile strength substituted, when they come to see God as law and love,--perfect law and perfect love,--and to see that communion with him comes, not from absorption, contemplation, and inaction, but from active obedience, moral growth, and personal development.

For Christianity certainly teaches that we unite ourselves with God, not by sinking into and losing our personality, in him, but by developing it, so that we may be able to serve and love him..