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various religions of the world should, therefore, be the same as our attitude to the
various languages. We no doubt love and admire our own religion, as we love and admire our
own mother tongue. Both of them come to us in our childhood. They are part and parcel of
our being. Their roots are entwined round our hearts. They are bound to us with a thousand
sacred memories. Nothing short of violence, which may end in our spiritual death be able
to tear us away from them. But love of our own religion should never result in hatred of
other religions. On the other hand, it, is
our duty to approach in a spirit of reverence and sympathy the other religions that we
finding our neighborhood with the object not only of understanding them, but also, if
possible, of improving and strengthening our own. In the modern conditions of the world it
is inevitable that the various religions of the world should come into frequent contact
with one another and thus influence one, another. And every religious man who cares only
for truth and who has no false pride of any kind would welcome such a state of things.
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