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Open Rejoinder from Rev. Hume
Open Rejoinder from Rev. Hume
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21 Mar 1894
News reports
To return to the effect of Swamiji's lecture "Christian Missions in India," it is significant that the only open rejoinder of any importance came from outside Detroit when, on March 21, the Reverend R. A. Hume, the director of a mission in India, wrote an open letter to Swamiji in an obvious but unsuccessful attempt to draw him into a public debate. Swamiji replied briefly to this letter, whereupon Hume, having received little satisfaction, again stated what he considered to be his case, and there, for the time being, the matter rested. (ND 1.454)
21 Mar 1894
News reports
This correspondence, which, according to Hume's wish, was published in the Detroit Free Press of April 8, 1894 (and later in pamphlet form by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions), was to lead to a long controversy, in which Swamiji took no part. (ND 1.454)
21 Mar 1894
News reports
The Reverend Mr. Hume, who, as readers may remember, had said at the Parliament of Religions: "In a generation all the positions of influence and responsibility will be in the hands of the Christian community of India," wrote his first letter to Swamiji from Auburndale, Massachusetts, on March 21, 1894. It began: (ND 1.455)
21 Mar 1894
News reports
The remainder of Hume's letter occupies a column of small type two feet long. As this seems too much to impose upon the present reader, I shall give a summary of Hume's points. There were eight of them: (ND 1.455)
21 Mar 1894
News reports
Swamiji wrote a hurried reply to Hume, confining his remarks, for the most part, to correcting certain statements falsely imputed to him. Other than this he neither modified the Free Press report of his lecture nor repeated it. His letter read as follows: (ND 1.457)
21 Mar 1894
News reports
The Christian missionaries did not know the vernaculars as they were spoken by the people. (ND 1.458)
21 Mar 1894
News reports
Hume's second letter to Swamiji, written on March 31, was largely concerned with the linguistic talents of his colleagues. (ND 1.458)
21 Mar 1894
News reports
Swamiji did not answer this second letter at all, and because of this he was later criticized as having evaded the main issues. (ND 1.459)
21 Mar 1894
News reports
An article in the Outlook of April 28, 1894, editorialized upon the Hume-Vivekananda letters as follows: (ND 1.459)
29 Mar 1894
Letter
Swamiji's letter to HUME REV.R A From DETROIT (CW SV 7.460)
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