Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-10-05

mentS.
i There We're other picturesque and
memorable features of the same day
An address of Kinza Ringe IIarai, a
Janapese Buddhist, at the afternoon
session was received with vOcIferOus
expressions Of enthusiasm. His sub
ject was The Real Position of Japan
Toward Christianity" and as he point
ed out the wrongs his countryInen had
suffered through the practices Of false
Christianity the audience applauded
heartily and cries Of Shame. Shame
rang through the hall. His words We're
a singing rebuke 10 Christians who had
sent their missionaries to japan. hut
who in the same moment at home We're
excluding the Japanese from Ameri-
cam shores. When the eloquent Bud
dhist had finished, the audience cheered
and waved hats and handkerchiefs; Dr.
Barrows grasped his hand warmly and
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, the prominent
Unitarian divine, threw his arm around
KinZa Harai'S neck.
A similarly enthusiastic scene occur
red when DR.. Barrows had concluded
the reading of paper on Good VIII
and Peace Among Men by RI Rev
Shibata Reiichi, president of the Jikko
sect Of ShintOism in Japan. Men fairly
rushed from the audience to the stage
to personally congratulate the Shinto
bishop. Equally enthusiastic women
were tres ted TO an agreeable surprise.
When several surrounded him to grasp
him the bishop put his arms abo 1t their
necks and kissed them on the cheek.
The audience applauded and Cheered
this happy. unique custom of Shinto-
ism.
Buddhism was unusually well repre-
Sented III the parliament of religions,
not only by its japanese representa-
tive but also by III. Dharmapala, the
learned Buddhist from Ceylon. 1t
took portions of two sessions for him
to read an able paper on The
Worlds Debt to Buddha.' While
speaking, Dharmapala had by his side
small stone figure Of Buddha, which
he said was 1900 years old. Human
brotherhood" declared Dharmapala,
forms the fundamental teaching Of
Buddha-universail love and sympathy
with all mankind and animal life
Mohammedanism was elucidated and
defended by Mohammed Alexander
Webb, the American disciple of Islam.
For two days Mohammed Webb was
the central figure of the parliament
his bright red fez making his person
atty prominent His defense of poly
gamy under certain conditions was the
sensation of the first day he appeared
and the stormy disapproval with which
it was received will be readily recalled
In his second paper the Mohammedan-
lied American declared that the Koran
in no wise sanctioned polygamy, a
statement that was clearly proved false
the following day by DIR. George E.
Post, of Syria. DR.. Post read without
comment passage after passage from
the Koran, every one Of which sanc-
toned the practice of polygamy. This
silent but powerful rebuke probably
killed in their infancy any seeds of
Islam that it's aggressive disciple had
sown in Chicago. History will no
doubt write MOhammed Webb down as
the oriental meteor OF the parliament of
religions.
Another disciple of Mohammed at the
of Constantinopl The following adj
ditional representatives of Oriental re
ligions also participated: Prof. Kosaki.
of Doshiasha college, Japan, who spoke
on 'Chrisianity in Japan; Rev. A.
MarderoS IgnadoS, of Smyrna, OIL
Professionalism in Turkey; Prof Isaac
I. Headland, a professor in Picking uni
versity, on Religion in Peking'; Swan
Vivekananda, a learned monk of Bonn
bay, India, Oh Hinduism as Religion;
Hung HSien Ho, of Shanghai, who
contributed a prize essay on ''Confu-
cianism"; J. A. S. Grant (Bey.), of
Cairo, Egypt, on THE Ancient Egypt
ian Religion; B. Nagarkar, on THE
Work of Social Reform in India; Miss
Jeanne Serabji, of Bombay, on THE
Women of India"
A silent, patriarchal figure of the
parliament was Christopher Jebara, the
Archimandrite of the Apostolic and
Patriarchal throne of the orthodox
church in Syria and the whole east.
He was always bareheaded and wore
his hair in flowing curly locks which
reached half way down his back.
".
American missions in foreign lands
were discussed in the parliament OF re-
kgons by several of the mC5t prominent
oriental scholars. At their hands Oul
foreign missionary methods We're dis
sacted and criticised. Dharmapala.
the Ceyion Buddhist, used plain,
straightforward words. Said he:
The program that has been con-
str7ucfed. the platform you have built
up must be entirely reconstructed If
Christianity is to make progress in the
east. You must send men full of I'M
selfshness. The conditions of our coun-
try are different from those of yours.
Your great slaughter house here is a
shame and a curse to civilization and
we do not want any such Christianity
in Ceylon, in Burmah, in Japan or in
China 1 tell you. if you want to make
Christianity an influence in the east
you must send there men of gentle
ness. lOwlinesS. meekneSS and tolerance.
The missionary is intolerant; he is sell
fish,
A learned Brahman, of Madras, Mar
asemachanya, spoke on the same sub
ject in perfect English. He, too, said
that the American missionary was I'M