The Light of the East November 1941

But how different the Church looks to those inside her fold to those who witness every day her care fog the poor the weak and the sick her anxious solicitude for her little children and especially her astoundingly merciful attitude to the sinners—the very image of the tender clemency ever exhibited to them by her Master the Good Shepherd. [...] It was frailty the malice of the devil the intempestuouness of youth the madness of passion the frenzy of evil desires the darkness of ignoance that led him astray. [...] Hindu — I do not deny that there are generous Christians in Europe but I cotend that Christianity as a system of life offered to all has failed in the West bcause after centuries of relentless preacing and efforts it has failed to retain the leadership of a.once Christian Europe and because it has failed to shape the spirit of the majority of the once Christian Europeans. [...] According to Hindu belief the body of the dead must be cremated and the ashes thrown into the waters of the holy Ganges so as to secure the salvation of the departed soul. [...] What is it that gives permanence and solidity to the apparently frail and tiny group of persons who compose the family ? It is part of the eternal cycle of life itself of birth and mating and death borne on in the current of love between husband and wife parents and children ; within this circle there is a minute daily routine consisting of the infinitesimal sandgrains of actions and events