Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-09-12

made all these powerful men angry
Therefore the greatest vice ! find in
America is hypocrisy. Ofall vices il
is the worst. Then | ask you, my
American friends, with great affection
because this is most serious matter
what would your churches live upon,
and how long would they last, ifthere
were no longer any hypocrites in this
country Also hope clergymen also
will excuse me II ask them especially
this same question. Do not think be.
cause | ask this question, therefore
am attacking Christian religion. Rcli-
| gion is one thing; churches another
thing quite different. When the Great
Teacher OF Christian religion came, first
thing He did was, TO attack Jewish
church because Jewish church was not
following religion, but was full ofbypoc-
risy. Therefore, always He said,
"Woe unto You scribes and pharisees,
hypocrites r Very often He repeats
this. All great moral teachers feel that
most serious danger TO real religion is
hypocrisy. Therefore, He hated hypo-
critics most of all. Nevertheless, So
called religious men today do almost
exactly the same things He blamed
the Jews. They "do aims to be seen
OF men" they Glove to pray in the syna-
gogues," and "do their works to be seen
OF men," and clay up treasures Tor
themselves on earth y therefore, He
says "Woe unto you that arc rich ?"
For these sayings, "the chief priests
and the scribes sought to destroy Him"
l almost think again they would do so.
japanese people are now travelling
very much all about Christian coun-
tries then, when they read the beau
tifnl teaching and see members OF Chris
tian churches doing all things exactly
contrary to it, and find that clergymen
allow all this TO 60 on in their churches,
they lose all respect. Then, when they
go back to japan, they will explain all
this to people. Then, when missiona-
ries try to correct Japanese, they will
ask them why they allow such things
openly, and why themselves they do
not follow moro closely Divine teach
ing; then they must be ready to answer
Therefore, quite kindly, ] tell them now,
SO when they are asked, they can have
answer all ready prepared. 1t seems
to me when people become immensely
rich, then they need not be hypocrites
any longer, because in this country
money can do anything. ! don think,
If man had five million of dollars he
could be hung in this country, even
when murder was quite clearly proved.
Somehow he would escape. think, if
he had fifty millions, he could elect
presidents and everybody he chose
then of course, no longer any occasion
to be a hypocrite
So then, ! find three great powers
in this country: first is money, second
is hypocrisy, third is "rings" To use
American expression, these three pow
ers "run the country" Only real pure
virtue has no power, because almost
certainly whoever was strictly superior
man, according TO Confucius, must seem
like a fool to all smart men. He can
not succeed like other men, therefore
he must retire.
/ could write a great deal more on this
--hj 80 L-. r~-si, q -, afraid ofsas-s-e
things that may offend. If | knew
English language better, | could writo
in more flowing kind OF style, so |
might even tell many true things in a
manner that would not seem rather
rude. Still, it is not my intention to
be rude, only to be quite honest and sim
cere. In my book which am going
to write in Japan, | have divided
American vices under four heads first,
ecclesiastical vices that is, all vices con-
nected with sects, churches, clergymen,
religious newspapers, young mems
Christian associations, and so on, sec
ond, political vices, that is all vices, con-
nected with elections, lobbying, polti-
cal newspapers, wire-pullers, custom
house frauds, Indian administration,
political rings, and so on; third, finan-
cial vices, d have already a little touch
ed on these, from which you can SEQ
how | can describe them quito fully)
fourth, social vices, such as vices con-
nected with marriage system in this
country, the aristocracy ofa democratic
republic, and many othersubjec rather
delicate, therefore | will not say any
thing more. only mention this to
show that ! have indeed earnestly ex-
amined your country, and find one
thing Of which you are entirely igno-
rant, and this "Taou."
This one word contains such high
idea, that am afraid it is not possible
for you to understand it. Neverthe-
less, will try and explain. Taou is
the "way of the Sage" or "the way OF
heaven" it is omnipresent and fills and
influences oil things, therefore Confu-
cius says "The Taou of the supreme
ly sincere enables them to foreknow
things it is only they who carry sin
ccrity to the highest point, and in
whom there remains not single hairs
breadth Of hypocrisy, that can ioresee
the hidden springs Of things. Taou is
what men ought to practice, Taou is
the selfsacrihce by which oneself is
perfected, and the knowledge by which
one periects others. Taou is the vir-
tue Of nature, the way of uniting the
external and the Internal All this is
Taou, and great deal more indeed,
Il takes a life to study and understand
Taou, for i contains three hundred
outlines and three thousand minute
particulars thereof It's not possible,
indeed, to understand 1t without prac-
ticing 1t, II cannot be understood by
the mind alone, only by strictly living
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