Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-22
PAGANS HONORED.
Christians Cheer Kinze Ringe
hirai to the Echo.
The Heathens Hold Their Own i
Temperance and federation.
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WORLDS FAIR, Sept, si.-lSpecial TN
parliament Of religions Of late almost out
does the fair in interest President Bon
ney and Dr. Barrows ought to have mon
ument. for they have organized the great
st success Of the era. il not OF the century
or indeed of all time. The first propositio,
that men Of all races, chimes ard creed
| should meet and talk ON that subject abou
which most men are more sensitive thai
any other excited a laugh. aud indeed It did
priori, seem very impracticable But they
have come, they have talked. and they hav,
astonished the best informed Americans
1t is no ing handle affair." either, - they
say ut Yale aud Harvard--all on one side
The pagans have held their own splendidly
and on two important points they have
completely discounted the Christians
An Eloquent Jap.
Not points of faith, Of course, for those
have not, strictly speaking. been discussed
the points were temperance and liberation,
and in the latter Kinze Ringe Hirai Of
Japan has carried off the honors. He
spoke with such clearness and force that
even his bitterest passages were cheered,
and when he closed there was a storm OF
applause. He gave history Of Christian
ity in Japan and the complete liberation
extended to it down to 1887. when the great
rebellion broke out. Then the missionaries
and native Christians took part against the
government and prolonged the bloody con
test. Thereafter the new faith was looked
upon with suspicion. while all others were
and still are equally free. His description
Of the wrongs perpetrated upon the Jap
anese through the SO called extra terrific
riality, or local rule Of foreigners, was sin
gularly pathetic. When he spoke Of what
the japanese had suffered in Christian
countries, and told how the United States
was now urged to deprive them Of the suf
frage in Hawaii, his slender form quivered
and his black eyes snapped with indigna
tion, but all the Christians cheered him TO
the echo
Next to Hirai the honors were won by
Protap Chunler Mozoomdar leader Of
the Brahmo-Somaj in India. He and Arch
bishop Dionysios Latas Of Zante are prob
ably the finest looking men, both In face
and person, among the foreign delegates
The more see Of the archbishop the better
like him. but Mozoomdar seems to ME
the man Of far more native power. His
system of reasoning bears curious resem-
blancc to that of Jonathan Edwards faId
l could pronounce no higher compliment)
while the fact that nearly all his conclu
sions are the exact opposite OF those of Ed
wards makes his discourse all the more In
teresting. Nearly century ago, he said
boy of pure Brahman stock reasoned out foi
himself system OF faith and wrote ~
essay to prove that there is but one God.
ard that all the 100000 gods and god
desses of Hindooism are but the vagarie
Of GGi keIed minds and corrupt fancy.
This WAS Raj Ram Doham Roy, VIII.
in 1880 founded the Brahmo-Somaj. A
the age Of 10 he had to leave home an,
went through the Iiimalayas to Thibet t,
investigate Lamasm. He mastered Per
sian, Arabic and Sanskrit and read all tn,
sacred books in those tongues. In 1882 h,
went to England. the first Hindoo to do so
and started the agitation which caused thu
British to suppress Sutteeism and othe
cruelties. Child marriage was great,
checked, and marriage between castles wa
slowly established. And SO, said Nc
zoomdar, the "One God Worship" n
Brahmo-Somai means, is going on to es
tablish in India the fatherhood of God and
brotherhood of man. need not detail tn,
tenets of his theology. 1t is simply pure
Unitarianism.
Confuclanism.
Hon. Pung Kwang Yu. who expoundet
Confucianism, looks like Chinese com
edan and to some extent moves like one
He is very round faced, and his smile i
that Of one just ready to perpetrate an In
nocent joke. Some far western prejudic,
may still cling to me, but 1t is hard for IN,
to see any dignity in Chinaman. Wher
! see one, my first thought is of "Washee,
washee, topside, havee two piecee MelicaD
man." Reiichi Shibata, high priest of Shinte
in Japan, had DR.. Barrows read his paper
and stood by the doctor to bow when tb'
audience applauded, then added a touch o.
comedy by kissing two ladies on the stage.
according to his religion" as was stated
His paper was chiefly plea for universal
liberation. And this emphasizes the mair
line Of distinction so far-all the Hindoos
begin with g and his eternal attributes,
deducing therrlrom the duty Of man, while
the Buddhists Gncluding the Shintoists)
begin and end with man and his relations
far as can learn, made any positive state
ment about the attributes or even the per
sonal reality of God. They seem to pur-
posely avoid expressing themselves on thai
point.
Christians and Jews.
The reader must bear in mind that sand
wiched between the oriental addresses were
papers by various Christians, some Of which,
4 LII sr.G
to say the least Rev. William Byrne Of
Cincinnati presented 1.-The Catholic View OF
Man" DIR. X. kohler sent a paper, read by
DR.. Hirsch, on brotherhood az the Jews
Look at It." He boldly ignored all the late
teachings about prejudice being the result
Of slavery and declared it older than man
in fact, an inheritance from the brute. lie
declared that original man wasdivided into
''the black heads and the red heads, the
former to serve and the latter to rule" His
paper would have delighted Bob Toombs.
He thought that Alexander the Great, by
destroying the old empires based on caste,
laid the foundation for a movement toward
a true brotherhood.
Rev. 7. +. Slater, missionary in India,
also puzzled his hearers considerably. His
paper is one which should be read over In
private several times to be understood, as
instance this paragraph: For the God OF
Hindooism is pure intelligence. a thinker;
not sovereign will as in Islam, nor the
Lord Of light and right az in Parseeism,
still less having any paternal or providen-
tial character. Nothing is created by his
power, but all is evolved by emanstion
from the one eternal entity. like sparks
from fire. No commands come from such a