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thou art but one of the countless multitudes whom Satan has bound with chains strong as steel, and who rejoice and glory in their bonds! As Christ wept over Jerusalem, so might Christendom weep over idolatrous and perishing India.

Hinduism, vast, complicated, and hoary with antiquity, holds in its deadly grasp more than a hundred million souls. God grant that the Sun of Righteousness may soon shine upon these gloomy night-shades, and banish forever this worse than Egyptian darkness from these millions of immortal minds! a darkness doubly fearful and fatal; for they love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.

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