Page:The Message and Ministrations of Dewan Bahadur R. Venkata Ratnam, volume 2.djvu/176

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

141

that flows from God to man. But, thanked be the All-Merciful Father, Theism is too humble, pious and scientific to promulgate ?so fatal a doctrine. Far from perpetually closing the channel of sweet intercourse between the Parent and the child, the Brahmos assert that revelation is not the speciality of a certain age, the provincialism of a certain land, the monopoly of a favoured race ; but that it is a Universal phenomenon co-eval and co-extensive with humanity. Wherever truth is boldly upheld, virtue duly honored, righteousness faithfully cultivated and self-sacrifice cheerfuly accomplished-each for its own sake, as in them lies the soul's normal state— there is revelation ; for thus are God and man brought together. Free as air, broad-cast as light, impartial as the genial showers of heaven, revelation informs the head, quickens the heart, strengthens the conscience and illumines the soul of every upward-looking man, to whatever clime or time he may belong. "This wide universe is the sacred temple