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THE RELIGION" OF THE SIKAS.
Fa thess days of across and struggle it is. [but rarely that"a man has efthor the op- portunity or the resolution to spend sixteen years upon a single book, and yet that is the space of time which Mr M. Macauliffe
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MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA
Sikhs and translation of their cred (MITSU BISHI Co.)
pritlugs, which is now ready for public: ation, and is about to be issued by the COAL DEPARTMENT.Carendon Press at Oxford. Mr Macauliffe belonged to the Punjab Civil Service, and
SOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA: spent the earlier years of his career in the SIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, HOJO,Sikh Distrions of that Province. Ha be NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHIŃNEWcame interested in the Sikh religion and and KAMIYAMADA Collerics.
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literature, and sixteen years ago reigned his post in the Civil Sorrico in order to darote Himself to a translation of, the Granth, or Sikh Bible. In this objech he has had ever since the co-operation of the leading Sikh Princes, roligious/loaders and scholars and the work is, therefore, to all intents and purposes, the output of | the Sikhs themselves, S¤anced with private. money, and printed by private enterprise... One of the most unbending rules of the British Covernment in India is that of religious neutrality. Gibbon says that in the time of the Roman Empire all religious were regarded by the common people as equally true, by the philosophers 19 equally false and by the Magistratesise equally useful; in the British Empire in
·India all religions, 'of Hindu and Mahome-
MANILA: Mesers Macondray & dan, Sikh and Farsee, Christian aml Buddhist are regarded as being on An even-footing, and no one of them is to receive more official encouragement than Another. For this reason the Punjab Government have preserved an attituča of benevolent neutrality towards Mr Macau litto's work; and, though Lord Kitchener bas personally encouraged the author, the Indian Government are held aloof, Nevertheless, there can be no doubt that the Sikhs, as the most loyal and most martial of all the races of India, are of such importance to our rule in India that the
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officials should be extended by the British people to a work of great erudition, great religious interest, and great-political im portance.
The fifteenth century was an age of mental and moral upheaynl all over the world. At the very time that Luther and Calvin were working for reform in Christianity, Guru Nanak, the first of the Sikla prophets, beysy to point out the errors that bad crept into Hinduism nud inaugurated the reforming movement of Sikhism. He is the Luther of
CONTRACT FORM. To be the Rail.the East, sad Sikisan bears to Hinduismi way, standard. Tho Cadersigned does not much the same relation as Protestantiam to bind himself accept the lowest or any Roman Catholicism. Nanak was succeeded tender, which should be deliverad before
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