ABSTRACT
Miss Carpenter published many interesting details about it in her “ Six Months in India;” while Miss Cobbe, in Fraser’s Magazine, and other writers in various religious periodicals, have sketched the history and principles of this remarkable community with more or less fulness, and generally in a favourable spirit. Among the earliest tracts issued by Keshub Chunder Sen, there appeared an English series, containing an exposition of the principles of Brahmoism in the form of dialogues between a Brahmo and an “inquirer,” who successively discuss the topics of Prayer, Religious Union, Intuition, Revelation, Atonement, and Salvation. Orthodox observers, not accustomed to see Christian sentiments in combination with philosophic rationalism, hastily accused him of vacillation, and of weakly shrinking from the displeasure of his countrymen; and this false impression has been so widely spread, as to have seriously injured his moral reputation.
