The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28
TO PREACH
ITO THEIR
j. PREACHERS
The Peculiar Mission Of
: Dharmapala of India to
the West.
MISSIONARIES ALL LACK
TACT.
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They Ignore Eastern Supersti.
tions But Preach Their Own
- With Fervor.
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WOULD RECONCILE THEM TO
. BUDDHISM.
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"a
Something About the Horrors of
- Famine Where Labor Is Paid
80. q Cents Day.
WOULD RECONCILE THEM TO
BUDDHISM.
Something. About the Horrors Of
80. ." Famine Where Labor Is Paid
-. q Cents Day.

1t is a rather novel mission, that of
Anagarika DharmapaIa from India to this
country He comes 10 preach humanitar-
lanism and consideration and method, not
to.speak of brotherly love, to missionaries
who go. into India. Five minutes in the
com pany OF Dharmapala discovers to the
Q least observing remarkable man. He is
quite young in appsarance-say about 32-
TO be possessed of his attainments. He is
a Singhalese by birth, he has lived in
India for many years and has adopted it
as his Country. He has the mild, quiet
manner, but nothing of the obsequious-
ness OF the Singhalese. He is tall and
slim In figure, his skin is deep chocolate
color, and. his eyes and long, wavy hair
and'thin beard and mustache are black
his picture cue raiment is composed 4.
simple Windings OF a bright yellow cloth.
He has complete command OF English, in
the use of which he permits himself a
slight foreign accent. He is the general
secretary of the Maha- Bodi Society of In
0la, which attempts q reconciliation of
Buddhism and Christianity.
10 ablure and Danish ignorance and
superstition and selfshness-that is my
religion" he says. at is my mission 10
preach that, for that is what Buddha
preached. With all the Intellectual ilu-
mipation OF the present day there is still
superstition clouding and hampering the
mind; You don't like to sit down to
Ia bic as the thirteenth person. President
Mckinley viii carry with him to the
White. House horseshoe that has been
presented TO him. You say that is but a
pleasantry. but still If the highest in the
land recognize the sign OF a superstition
even as a joke, how must the mass of the
people feel wish regard TO these same
. sigAs2 Now, that is what came TO say
TO those who send missionaries to India.
The common people there have certain
innocent supersNuons or customs which
+, it's well that those who seek to gain their
.sympathies should recognize. Suppose
come here. and have Orses killed for
tabie-? Would | not prejudlce the people
against me? The COW is sacred in India
1t. is the giver of life. Il is the beast OF
burden and it gives milk. How can any.
body eat the flesh of so useful an animal?
Only the scayenger-and the missionary
docs so in India. And the two are
c0up pied at once in the mind of the
q. people" :.
The missionary goes hun ting and ruth
lessly kills in India, which is onsidered
. very base thing to do; he does not set
him self greatly against the introduction
Of Western whisky, and in many other
ways he does not live as and is not that
example of uprightness, purity and zeal
thatTne people expect in an apostle OF
tie true religion.
80 "Disregarding the little superstitions of
the people of India in a manner that af-
fronts them they, the missionaries, give
expression TO their own superstitions
This is what 1 came to confer with the
missionaries concerning. 1 would say to
item, brothers. let US live such lives, so
upright and pure and steadFast for the
truth, So humane, so marked by brotherly
love and kindly consideration that our