is the greatest book teaching broth-!piness of the human soul.
“Hindu
LIFE’S MEANING VIEWED ;
erly love,”
‘sald Ahmad-Abdoullah.
ism is like the electricity which lights
"Man's duty to God is to love his
a great si
he said.
“The many-
BY FOUR GREAT FAITHS|
2
cighbor as “himself.
It is useless to
colored bul
Ibs are the ms
any parts of
seek a master until
‘ou see your fel-
humanity, but the fundamental power
Jow as yourself,” he said.
‘Religion,
motivates all,
‘Thus does Hinduism
Christian, Jewish, Mohammedan
the one true religion, is love.””
attempt to merge all consciences Into
‘Swami. Yo
ananda, Indian’ philoso-
‘one mass cosmic conscience.”
and Hiada Bsliefs Are Ex-
her and cul
i
it leader, defined Hindu-
{sm as a great source of power mak-
pounded at Meeting.
ing for the eternal e:
tence and hap-
‘The meaning and purpose of human
life as viewed by four principal
world religions was the subject of
a “Fellowship of Faith:
* discussion
last night at St. Bartholomew Com-
munity House,
109 Hast Fiftieth
Street.
Christianity, Mohammedan-
ism,
Judaism and Hinduism were
each discussed.
Dr.
Robert Nor-
wood presided.
‘The purpose of human life for the
Christian, as discussed by Dr. Fred-
evick Lynch, secretary of the World
Alliance, is twofold.
“The first pur-
pose of the Christian life,” said Dr.
Lynen,
“is the perfection of the
soul, and the enrichment of human
life
by taking into the soul
the
beauty which is in the world.
In
this respect Christianity generally
differs from other religions only in
the means which it uses as an at-
talnment of this end.”"
"rhe second
purpose of the Christian life is the
impartation of greater
richness of
soul to others, said Dr. Lynch
Dr. Sydney W. Goldstein, assistant
rabbi of the Free Synagogue, speak-
ing on the Judaistic conception of hu
man life, pointed out as funda
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the ideais of brotherhood, social
jus
tice and peace,
“The vi
jon of
ia
man brotherhood in a world of mis
understanding and prejudice and a
realization of social justice in which
the resources of life are utilized for
the good of all instead of the enrich-
ment of, the. few,
fare primary in
Judaism,
said Dr
Goldstein.
"But
the centre of the Jewish aim is u
versal peace.”
‘The fundamental precept of Mo-
hammedanism is an acknowledgment
of unit
Said G. MI. Ahmad-Abdo:
i
Jah, religions teacher.
“The Koran
he New ork Gimes
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“Hindu
LIFE’S MEANING VIEWED ;
erly love,”
‘sald Ahmad-Abdoullah.
ism is like the electricity which lights
"Man's duty to God is to love his
a great si
he said.
“The many-
BY FOUR GREAT FAITHS|
2
cighbor as “himself.
It is useless to
colored bul
Ibs are the ms
any parts of
seek a master until
‘ou see your fel-
humani