Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-05-22
REV. CARVlN'S LECTURE.
BUDDHISM, BRAHMINIsM AND
THEOsoPHY DISCUSSED.
The Christian Religion L. the only
One That Has Benefited the
Human Race.

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years in this city, most of which
time he has spent in preaching,
the Rev. Z. d. Garvin has be-
come known to the community as
a man void of any ambition to
obtain notoriety or unusual dis
tinction by the practice of any
thing in the line of theological
gymnastics or sensational or ques-
tionable methods of drawing"
that were in any way calculated to
lower the dignity of the christian
pulpit. Holding this estimate Of
their pastor his brethren and ac-
quaintances we're not little sur
prised Sunday night last to find
his discourse eliciting verbal
response from some in the
audience and little later the
anomaly of an outburst of ap-
plause during the progress of
his sermon. The reverend gentle
man himself seemed somewhat
surprised for the moment at the
unusual and unexpected occur
renee. The discourse was COM
parison of the different systems of
religion and it was the presenta-
ton of poignant truth and sharp
contrast that brought the audience
to the point of making demon
stration of their approval of the
preachers forcible address. A
brief synopsis of the sermon
which was based on the scripture
text "By their fruits ye shall
know them," Mat. 7:20, is given
below.
The assertion contained in the
text, he said, is true of nations
and religions as we'll as of in
dividuals. The Legitimate results of
any system will give safe
measure of its utility. Religion
means a binding back to God, the
fact then that man has any reli-
gion says that he admits that men
have gone away from God.
This fact is generally admit
ted. Men never began to philoso-
phize until they were losing the
knowledge of the true God. At
the time of the flood the whole
human family had this knowledge,
Moan and his wife, their three
sons and their wives.
The Brahminical religion is
one of the oldest man-made sys-
TENS. 1t dates back to the time
of Moses. 1t does not even COM
pare favorably with the mythical
religions of the Greeks and Rom
ans. 1t has three Gods: l. Brah-
ma. Creator. 2. Vishnu-P -Preserver.
3. Siva-Destroyer, and these had
three female consorts. Under
this system the COW, serpent and |
monkey and certain plants are
sacred and to be worshiped. From
it also comes the abominable |
caste system which is the curse of !
India today. The Brahmins
(priests) Kshatriyas, (soldiers)
Vaisyas, (merchants and farmers)
Sudras, (servants) these came
respectively from the mouth,
arms, thighs and feet of Purusha,
a primary being. Where this
religion has sway an infant if it
is unfortunate enough to be a
female may be strangled and put
out of the way or what is worse
it may be betrothed to almost
any man, it is just at the whim or
caprice of those who have the
matter in hand. A child of three
or four years may be the wife of
a man fifty or sixty years of age
who in the natural course of
events dies, and this is casus belli
against this innocent child. She
may be burned or at best she is
the slave, the despised outcast of
her family, and this is done with
the countenance and approval of
this religion that we are asked to
accept as the true religion. 81
ask" said Mr.. Garvin, Tin the
name of everything sacred and
holy what good has this system
done for the race. See the corrupt
fruits by which it must be judged"
Buddhism, which is the religion
Of 500 millions of our race, is
much better than Brshminism.
Its author, Gautama, was born in
India about GOO b. G. At the age
Of 20, he left his wife and child
and began an ascetic life, studied