Covenanter Witness Vol. 55 - Rparchives.org

itual,"ritual."structure"gross."Missionary NumberBIBLE LESSONS FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 21, 1955ovenanterWitnessVOLUME LV, NO. 5 TOPEKA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1955Looks atHinduismAn Article in Answer to a Leading Magazine'sEstimate of the World's Great ReligionsDon Hillis In Evangelical Action(Used by Permission)India's 300,000,000 followers of Hinduism are "In essence it is the purest, while in its rituals it can"probably the most religious people on earth. Re be revoltinglyligion determines the Hindus' social structure . . .Every act of the orthodox Hindu's The editors of Lifedaily life, wisely refrain fromgettingdescribingup in the morning, shaving, eating, even theanysex actof the "revolting" practices of Hinduism. Mostof these practices would notisbe understood and somemarked by some religiousof them would not be printable. When the gods ofFor centuries India's "social has been Hinduism admittedly stooped to the lowest forms ofheavily burdened with a binding caste system andimmorality, it is not to be wondered that the folits millions of outcastes. It has long condoned child lowers of these gods feel no restraint in doing themarriage and a relative disregard for womanhood same. The worship of man, birds, beastsand widowhood. Indescribable poverty has and creepstalkeding things inevitably leads to moral behavior that isthe length and breadth of this land of idolatry like of the lowest level. In the first chapter of Romans wea devouring beast for decades. Its apathy towards read that those who "change the glory of the uneducation is made apparent by the fact that eighty corruptible God" into the worship of other thingsper cent of India's present population is living in the are given over to uncleaness through the lusts ofacademic darkness of illiteracy. Its indifference to their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies. Unward medical science has produced generations ofrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,people whose life expectancy is approximately thirty maliciousness, envy, murder, debate, deceit, and theyears. That these conditions stem from the roots of such like, follow in the train of this type of worship.Hinduism no one can deny. As for her "religiousit is, in the Howmain, a hopeless and never-enddeeply this worship of living creatures ising struggle to build up merit.ingrained in the practice and thinking of Hinduismis plainly stated by the editors of Life."In theory," says Life, "HinduismThey state,is the sim"Seeing God in everything, the Hindus have aplest of religions (pantheistic), yet in practice it isrever-almost incomprehensibly complex (polytheistic)." Please turn to page 72