The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21

a delivery which. addressed to simple un-
derstandings and dealing with primary
ethics. yet impressed them as oracular. HIS
telling points drew frequent asserting
''nammiyos," recalling echoes from the
amen corner, and the congregation smiled
so often, more than once breaking out into
a guffaw. that he was plainly not one OF
the preachers who thought it necessary to
bore his audience into virtue. AS these
points had the desired effect, the preacher
face relaxed into wide-mouthed delight. He
was clearly having a good time.
HOW PEOPLE SHOULD BEHAVE.
Our guide had a notebook which he used
industriously during the ten minutes or so
that the sermon lasted This is part of the
sermon, according to the guides notes: II
wish to talk to you as L have often done,
in plain and simple manner. You have
no time to study the lessons of the sages,
and must teach them to you. If / make
my meaning clear by light stories you
must not laugh. only want to put things
so that they will be easy for you to under
stand. We have original hearts; that is,
our hearts are perfect. If we do or say
wrong our hearts are conscious of wrong
1t is only when the heart is evil that IL is
imperfect. Now listen TO me and do not
get drowsy. Follow the impulses of heart,
and you will have a teacher who will not
ask fees of you or take you out in the heat
or cold to inquire after his health, or to
pay visits of ceremony. Here you can buy
good thing cheap. How easy, then, is it
to learn filial piety So do what your heart
tells you with all your might.
III
no one would think of using it as towel.
A table is not made to sit on, nor for a
pillow. 1 am showing you your hearts as
man in shop shows his goods. You
who cause your parents to weep, who an
ger your husbands, who grieve your wives,
who maltreat your children, who do no.
show respect to your elder brothers, are
wiping your faces with fan or using a
table for pillow. l do not say any such
persons are here, but there are many to be
found, say in the back streets of India. so
please mind my words. Wise men say that
the way to be righteous is to keep on the
high road of duty. Filial love in children.
virtue in wives. truth among friends these
are on the right road. Parents, children.
husbands, wives, have each special duties
When the duties are faithfully performed
the heart is true
Parents owe duties especially to their
daughters. Many teach them the koto and
samisen. and train them up in. the manner
| of singing girls. but teach them next to
nothing of their duties as wives very
often the girls escape from their parents
and elope. This is not the fault of the
| maidens, but of their education Remem-
| Der the passage in the song of The -Four
Sleeves which says: If people knew be-
forehand all the misery that it brings there
| would be less going out with young ladies
| to look at the flowers at night This sort
| of thing happens but too often in the world
When a young man and a young lady
| set up a filtration without the consent OF
their parents they think it will all be very
delightful and find themselves very much
| deceived. If they knew what a sad and
| cruel world this is they would not act as
| they do. When a man marries wife he
thinks how happy he will be and how
pleasant it will be keeping house on his
| own account but before the bottom of the
| family kettle nas been scorched black he
will be like a man learning to swim in a
| field, with his ideas all turned topsy-turvy
and, contrary to all his expectations he viii
| find the pleasures of housekeeping to be all
| delusion." The sermon now closed witt
a warning against self-pride, in which tn,
priest told of shell fish which boosted
that 1t could always protect itself from
harm. One day. while Wanting itself. e
the envy or other fish, there came a grea
| splash. The shell fish snapped to its Ia
and wondered what had happened. 1t knew
| IT was safe, but felt sorry and anxious fol
the other fish. When all was quiet ans
seemed tranquil il opened its shell slipped
| out its head and looked around. The sur
roundings We're unfamiliar Looking mor
| carefully. ii found itself in fishmonger'.
| shop and with card marked '.sixteeI
! CASH on its back.
A priest was beating a drum in the las
| of the temple buildings visited. Her,
| women were collected, clapping. their hands
| 10 call the attention of the divinities Z,
| themselves as they dropped copper casi
into the coffinlike box placed at the en-
| trance for donations. Apart from the i'm
| pulse which leads woman to worship sh,
| has peculiar reason for devotion in Bud
| dhism because her way to rest is rounda
| bout. Not counting at all in her presen
| condition. she must become a man by new
| birth before she can begin to gather merit
| A woman was shaking a cylinder box o
bamboo filled with slender. notched sticks
She moved the box so that one stick slowl,
rose above its companions. The prizes
withdrew the stick. and from a pigeon hol
compartment took slip for which tn
stick seemed TO call. He gave the slip I,
the woman. who tucked IL into the folds o
her obi, or waist sash. and hurried away
Our guide went through the performance
The slip he obtained promised him goo,
| fortune. He said he got a slip every month
| and IL had never failed to advise him trul,
| whether he would do well or iii for tina
month. The woman. he said. would carr.
the slip where she could study IL out alone
Nothing could disturb her faith that he
affairs would be shaped by its promises
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