CHRESTIAN MISSIONS IN INDIA.

•the same, but certainly do not mean the same as his.
"With that he fancies*n his simplicity that he has prove4
'the falsity of the doctrines of the alien belief. It really
never occurs to him to ask the question, which of the two
is right,"— or whether both may not be right.

Hear this story which I have been told of a Jewish
.and a Christian religious leader. Both were sincere
religious men, cultured and devoted. The Christian
•cordially welcomed all converts that came to him from
•other faiths, to be received into his own. The Jew, when.
'Christians came, as ma,ny did, to be received into the
-Jewish church, said to them : " Why do you wish to be
received ? you wish to worship in our synagogues ? the
•doors are open, do so when you will. You wish to keep
•our moral laws ? do so by all means, you will be a better
•citizen. You want to conform to our ritual ? what good
will that do you ? it is the traditional discipline of a race,
unstated to you and a useless burden for you. You wish
-to be born of Abraham tha,t I cannot give you. You say
that I have taught you what is good ? well, if so, go away
rand practise it and teach it in your own church."

Buddhism and Hinduism are themselves missionary
religions. The Buddhist Emperor Asoka (272. B.C.)
-organized foreign missions on a truly magnificent scale*
'These were perhaps the most successful missions ever
undertaken, for it was his support that " made the fortune
•of Bucldhism, and raised to it the position which enables it
?still to dispute with Christianity the first place among the
religions of the world, so far as the numbjer of believers is
•concerned" (Yincent Smith). With all his devotion to
the Law of Buddha, what was his attitude to other sects ?
It is .summed up in this extract fr.om one of his edicts :
41 All sects have been reverenced by me with various forms