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- - - * 硬 影 reply betrays. Brahmoism is Hindoo Theism. . The very word “Brahme.” which signifies the spiritual worshipper of B Alma, the term by which the Ilindoo Shastius designate the One True God, indicates its Hindoo origin. The basis of H3rahmoism is the Hindoo Shastras. But, although the Somaj has always maintained this opinion, it has never disacknowledged nor does it do so now the authority of reason. Rajah Rammollum Roy wrote in his preface to the 1shopanishad: “I hope that, forsaking superstitious idolatry, they this countrymen) will embrace the rational worship of the God of Nature as enjoined by the Vedas and confirmed by the dictates of common sense.” In No. 26 of the Tattwabodhini Patrika, our friends will find an English article in which it is said: “The knowledge derived from the source of inspiration (the Vedas) deals with eternal truths which require no other proof than what the whole creation and the mind of man unperverted by fallacious reasoning afford in abundance.” No. 40 of the same journal contains a letter of Baboo Debender Nath Tagore published in the Englishman 25' years ago, in which he said, that his religion is that religiou which inculcates, “that “among the knowers of God he is pre-eminent whose amusement is God, whose enjoyment is God, and who practises active virtue (Mindak Upanishad) : that religion which enjoins us ‘to immers ourselves in God, yet not forsake lesions liberal' (Swetaswatar: Upanishad). In short, that religion whose principles are ocluটকে by that of Nature, Human Reason, and Human Healt, and by th sense of the wisest of all ages of all eountries.’ ł n abou 1850, Mlr. Mulleus, a Missionary of the Church of Scotland having addressed a letter to the Brahmo Somaj enquiring ೩ುಣ್ಣ! its doctrines, the Somaj gave a rell, containing the followin passage: “The doctrines of the Brahmos or spiritual worship pers of God, whom 1 presume you mean by Moderm Vedantists are founded upon a broader and more unexceptionable basis tha the seriy as of a single religiotis denomination; in the earth. Th
