Böcker av Protap Chunder Mozoomdar

In the year 1880, in the month of January, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Brahmo Somaj, the birth of the New Dispensation was announced. In that pregnant year it was a specially pregnant month in which Protap Chunder Mozoomdar delivered his lecture on "Will the Brahmo Somaj last?" and Keshub Chunder Sen on "God-vision in the Nineteenth Century," Two years later when the former was bringing out a book on the faith and Progress of the Brahmo Somaj he incorporated the said lecture as a separate chapter in it with some additions and alterations. As it is still asked and will continue to be asked for some time yet, it has been thought that Protap Chunder's answer to the question, Will the Brahmo Somaj last? will be a timely publication, and The Brotherhood, taking advantage of the eighth anniversary, has added this pamphlet to those already issued. The addition of a chapter on The New Dispensation taken out of the same book makes, it will be found, the answer more explicit.

The Oriental Christ by Protap Chunder Mozoomdar first published in 1883. I HAVE often asked myself what right I have to handle the life of Christ. The answer has been uniform. My spirit craves to utter itself on that endless theme. I anticipate the disapproval of authoritative ecclesiastics. I foresee the surprise of one-sided theists. I have a clear prevision of the sarcasm and reproach of clear-headed combative scholars. But my line of speculation scarcely coincides with theirs. Mine are but human prayerful endeavors to realize the character and spirit of the Son of God. Mine are but attempts to accept, assimilate, and embody ideal humanity. The Bible has been my guide; and devout thinkers, both living and dead, have been my companions. I pretend not to criticize, far less to teach ! In my long wanderings and solitudes, in my dark isolations and seasons of spiritual exile, I have labored to seek, and rejoiced to find, pure, simple, glorious manhood in the Son of Man. And I feel constrained to speak on the subject to the spirit of the living, and the dead, and the unborn. If I stand before the tribunal of the times, it is not as a man assuming superiority, teachership, or wisdom over any, but simply as one uttering aloud his own thoughts.