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KOSICRTJCIAN PHILOSOPHY
Angels who have charge of men's evolution are capable of
judging our needs, and placing each one in the environment
where he will iind the influences most conducive to
progression, we must also believe that they have given to
each nation the religion most salutary to its unfoldment.
Therefore, when a man has been placed in a country where,
the Christian religion is taught, that religion holds the
ideal which he should strive for, but to try to force it upon
other people who have been placed in a different sphere is
to set our judgment up as greater than the judgment of
God and His ministers, the Eecording Angels. However,
as said, the Christian missionaries have done little harm
to the people they have visited, but they might have done
more good at home. We do not need to go away from home
to find heathen who need instruction in the Bible. Pro-
fessor Wilbur L. Cross of Yale mentions, for instance,
that in a class of forty students not one could place Judas
Iscariot; that he had a Jewish student who had never
heard of Moses and that in answer to a question concern-
ing the nature of the Pilgrim's Progress,
the best answer
was that it is the basis of New England history. If the
missionaries were brought into contact with these heathen,
perhaps they might do some good.
More harm, however, is done when the East sends its
missionaries over here to convert us to Hindooism and
kindred religions, for often these Hindoos teach breathing
exercises which cause insanity or consumption, because our
western bodies are not at all fitted for such practices.
is safest to rest in the religion of our country, to study
and practice that, leaving to other nations the privilege of
doing the same in respect to their own religions.
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