Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-05-12
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The Chinaman Who Has Come to Teach
New York Christians Buddhism.

The Chinaman Who Has Come to Teach
| New York Christians Buddhism.
From the New York SUM-
In the house of Madame Bavitsky, at
302 West Forty-seventh Street, a recep-
ton was given last evening to Wong
Ching Foo, a Chinese political exile, who
is occurring on the religions and politics
of his country. Col. Henry S. Olcott
was master of ceremonies and the Mad
anne was graceful hostess. There was
small party of men and women pres
ent. Mr.. Wong, rs he is called by his
American friends, was suffering from in
disposition, and was not visible when
the company assembled; but he soon af-
terward entered the parlor. and was in
troduced by Col. Olcott. He is but %
years of age, and slight, almost to eflem-
macy, but has singularly pleasant
and intelligent face. His hair is worn
in a neatly braided queue that reaches
the floor. His dress, distinctively Chi
nese. was rich, and consisted of black
braided skirt reaching to his feet, a
sleeveless brown velvet jacket cut square
and open in front, a standing collar,
black skull cap, and thick soled Chinese
slippers. About his neck hung long,
MASSIVE gold chain, and an emerald pin
fastened his snowy silken neckhandker-
chief.
Mr.. Wong explained his object in
coming TO this city, and made clear many
points of the Buddhist belief that are
generally misunderstood among us. He
said that he wished it to be clearly I'M
dersood that he did not come here in an
aggressive spirit; that ne was not try
ing TO undermine our faith in Christiani-
ty, hut that he wanted to give us cor
rect impression of his country and its
religions. He is particularly incensed
at the dogma of seine Christian denom-
inations-that all so-called heathens are
doomed TO eternal damnation. He said,
{" / respect Christianity, and / venerate
Christ rs | do Buddha and Confucius,
and / want TO prove to Christians that
the Chinese have as high civilization,
lead rs pure lives, and have as strong
hopes for happiness in future life, as
they themselves. We do not bow down
to images and worship them. The
images represent great sages, like Con-
fucius, great statesmen or noted war
riors, and when we kneel before them
and pray, it is that the good God will
endue us with a 1.-THE of their wisdom
and goodness. Your golden rule of love
thy neighbor As thyself was taught as one
of the fundamental doctrines of Bud
dhism thousands of years before Christ
was born. The Mosaic law-the ten
commandments-was taken from the
books of Buddha, in which you may
now read them almost word for word
You in this country are taught that we
Chinese eat nothing but rice and
puppies and rats; that our women are
slaves or worse. never knew of these
things until | came to this country. |
Your missionaries do not understand Us. !
Because we do not do things as they are
to do them, they say we are |
because they never learned |
the first principles of our religion, and
can not understand it, they |
say we are heather and must suffer eter-
nal damnation. Then, too, they only |
mingle with our lowest and most de- ,
graded classes, and, of course, we have |
such as well as you, from whom they |
learn the very worst features of Chinese |
life. The salary received by mission
airy in China is fortune i'm that country,
and on it he can live in luxury; so, of
course, it is a good thing for him to
make us out AS very wicked, and thus
retain his position. These things burn
into my heart, and | want TO explain
them to the people of this country, that
YOU may know us for what we are, and
not what you have been taught, by
ignorant or prejudiced people, to believe
Us to be-"
Wong Ching Loo, talked for several
hours on this topic, earnestly, and with
IN enthusiasm that communicated itself
% his hearers. He readily answered