They embraced it with the rest that India taught them, centuries ago.

But though just as eager to learn of us now as of India then, Christianity fails to commend itself.

This is not due to the fact that the Buddhist missionaries came by invitation, and ours do not.

Nor is it due to any want of personal character in these latter, but simply to an excess of it in their doctrines.
For to-day the Far East is even more impersonal in its religion than are those from whom that religion originally came.

India has returned again to its worship of Brahma, which, though impersonal enough, is less so than is the gospel of Gautama.