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Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

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peace and rippleless thought of deity. The most<br />

blessed existence was the utter dissolution of all<br />

existence. The trinity would gather up into itself for<br />

endless years all the untold personalities of the<br />

universe. Heaven was not a place, it was a state of<br />

mind. It was heresy to the Hindu to say that<br />

eternity would be filled with holy, happy beings<br />

such as the Old Testament described. According to<br />

Hinduism, thrones, principalities, angels, demons,<br />

and mediators would all perish. They were all<br />

phantasies of the spirit; they did not really exist.<br />

The New Revolution in Hinduism<br />

Such was India 500 years after Daniel when the<br />

Church of the East entered that unhappy land. Of<br />

all the difficult situations Christianity ever faced in<br />

the Orient, the one in India was without rival.<br />

Fearless in the strength of the Holy Spirit, apostolic<br />

fervor at once challenged hidebound heathenism.<br />

Now unified under the organization completed by<br />

Papas, the church went forth to conquer for Christ.<br />

God gave wonderful success. With the sickle of<br />

truth the witnesses for Jesus gleaned golden grain<br />

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