PROFESSOR Gopal Chandra Shastri, M.A., a distinguished Oriental scholar and Hindu preacher, thus speaks:— "I was, up to the year 1890, a great enemy of Christianity. In my popular Hindi book on the superiority of Hinduism I wrote in the beginning of the year 1890 to the following effect: ' Call me a dishonorable Hindu, and I will bear that with resignation; but do not call me a Christian, however good and great that word may be. Christianity is a term repugnant to my feelings and shocking to my ideas. No man can make me a Christian.'
"But I, the same Gopal Chandra of the Hindus, who was a staunch and strong enemy of Christ in the year 1886, am now a follower of Christ Jesus in the year 1896! My hard heart is converted, the stubborn unbelief is removed, and the grace of God is stealing downward, like the dew of heaven, in silence and unseen. During the past three years I carefully read many books bearing upon Christianity, and became convinced of its truth.
“I am now a new man in Christ Jesus, and I can now happily hold my life as of no value, for our dear Lord and Savior’s service.
“There are times when the heart will, and must, speak for itself; but my poor pen cannot give adequate vent to the feelings of my awakened heart. May our Almighty Father give me more light to know more of Christ Jesus and Him crucified.
“The Book of Books has alone converted me; it was not in the power of any man to convert me into Christianity. May the Book convert many millions like me!”