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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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of this feeling in its different forms, and examined the effects
and tried to judge of the value of the different religions, I
have come to look upon them as so many progressive steps
in the development of the religious idea—that is, of the
religious feeling in the human race; as so many steps in the
development upwards, of which it is by no means certain that
the highest has yet been reached.
If, then, we can argue, from the universality of the religious
idea in man, that religion is essential to the human race; if
we can trust the universal feeling that there is some Spirit—
call that Spirit what we will—ruling the Universe and guiding
the development of the human race;—then it is only reasonable
to believe that, as the race grows older and accumulates
experience, and as other faculties develop, so this religious
feeling will develop also, and the conception of the Deity
and of the relations of man to the Deity enlarge itself. The
traveller through strange countries sees that the various forms
of religion professed by separate peoples only differ in degree
of truth, that none are wholly false, and that all have the
same foundation of belief in a Power governing and influencing
all men.
He can no longer believe that the Christian religion is
so far superior to the Buddhist or the Mohammedan religion;
that the Christian is to go to heaven, while the "heathen" is
to go to hell. He cannot help recognizing that there is some-
thing in the Christian religion vastly superior to others, but
he sees that these latter have much that is good and true in
them also. The feeling, then, that is begotten from reflecting
on all this, is that those who desire to be leaders in a religion,
and to gain adherents to it, must study in a sympathetic
manner the religions of others. They must do this, and it
cannot be doubted that cultured men, living true and noble
lives, must be able to influence those around them. Be they
professed missionaries or be they simple Christian men and
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