The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-15

Chicago. Dec. 14-Wong Chin Foo
weakened the risibilities of an audi
,nce of Americans which assembled in
Kinball hall last night to hear Con
f.cius and Confucianism expounded
by the Mongolian.
The high priest was much in earnest,
but his advocacy of polygamy and his
declared belief in the DEMONSTRATION
OF the soul awakened smiles from the
Chicagoans whom he sought to con-
vert. However, Wong Chin Foo's re-
marks on civil service reform as ex-
isting in Chicago were applauded by
the audience. There were no China
men present, it being strictly an
American audience. The speaker de-
clared that the future existence of the
average Chicago politician would be
connected with hog life"
''PoIygamy,' he declares. prevents
divorces. for men do not need to separ-
ate from their wives when other wives
can be lawfully obtained without re-
course to such cruelty"
The proper system of politics, he
suggested, would be the real cutting
off of heads instead of mild dismissals
from office. Wong Chin Foo said:
by birth, I am from North China;
but I love my newly adopted country
and countrymen so well that 1 have
almost forgotten the way to China. 1t
is because I love this country better
than any other that 1 desire to address
You tonight. 1t is because I have
found something socially, politically,
and morally wrong amongst my newly
adopted countrymen that cannot any
longer hold my tongue
For nearly 20 centuries you have
studied the Bible; for 20 centuries YOU
have prayed and tried to force down
the Threats of the unbelieving heather
a doctrine that you are all at sea on
yourselves.
How is it that in a rich country and
among such people of wealth and re-
finement, industrious men. helpless
women, and innocent children can be
actually starved to death, not only in
the cold and wintrv days, but almost
every day in the wear?
There must be something sadly out
of gear or radically wrong with the
fundamental principle of social and
religious economy of the Christian
ethics. IF a system of reformation
fails 10 accomplish its desired result
for so many thousand years, is it not
about time to throw it into the Chicago
river with big stone tied to it, and
try something else?
But our philosophers and divine
teachers taught us a more intelligent
and nobler idea of our creator, or Omi
Tofoo, as he is called by the prophets.
That Omi Tofoo has so loved his chill
dren all over the earth that he has
given every race of men, according to
their natures. peculiarities and wants,
q system of salvation or reformation
by which they could all reach that
objective point of happiness or heaven.
God has given each individual, no
matter how small or humble, a con-
science which is a divine law-or in
SEPARATION. as you call it, That divine
law develops with the individual in
telligence-the individual becomes a
sage. a philosopher, a moral genius,
and a possible Confucius, or a possible
Christ.
Death is a long dream. The soul
wanders away from the body and for
gets TO return home. 1t sometimes
enters some other beings and lives
over again. and sometimes retains its
own individuality. If during his life
he had been good, the spirit continues
Being freed from the material body,
it goes as the thought, which is the
soul, to any desired point instantly.
But it is different with the soul of
the wicked in life. He dreams horri-
BILE dreams. He is pursued by imagi-
nary enemies. He is constantly being
watched and prosecuted. He tries to
get away. And he wishes it was only
a dream
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