The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-17

Inc answer comes IN the words OF
Buddhist priest Of high rank, and that,
too, not from cloister, but from the
bloody battlefield of Nan-shan. The
Right Rev. shaku soyen, who was a con-
spicuous figure at the parliament of re-
ligions in Chicago in 1893, in The Open
Court for December answers the question,
The following extracts from his impress
sions will be seen to bear directly upon the
matter:
the greatest thing one can achieve is to combat
evil and bring it into complete subsection.
!" No Buddhist will ever relax his energy
until every one of his fellow creatures be safely
carried over to the other shore of perfect bliss.
~ Indeed. were it not for the doctrine of love
taught by the Buddha, which should elevate every
individual creature to the realm of pure sptritu-
atty, we would, in the face Of the terrible ca
lamities that now befall us, be left to utter de-
struction and without any consolation whatever.
Were it not for the belief that the bloom of
truly spiritual light will, out of these mutilated
dsfgured and decomposing corpses, return with
renewed splendor, would not be able to stand
these heartrending tribulations even for a
ment. Were it not for the consolation that
these sacrifices are not brought for an egotistic
purpose. but are inevitable step toward the
final realization Of enlightenment. how could I,
poor mortal, bear these experiences Of hell
let loose earth?
than itself. individuality is but husk
tanning something more permanent. Let us,
then tho not without tenderness Of heart, brave
ly confront our ordeal.
The writer of the above says much
else of equal interest, and his article, to-
gether with a picture of himself make
feature of more than ordinary quality for
the magazine.
.%,f WHY NOT INDEED?
| If more than one house called houses
l. And more thon one mouse are mice,
| Then why two mice not mouses.
And why are two houses not hice?
If letter is sent and it goes, ~'>l
And we know it went when it's gone,
| Why hasn't it snent when it SHOWS
l. Or the money we spent been spone!
| If the vine that clings never changed.
| But the joke that we spring is sprung,
Why isn't the bell that we ring ranged
| Or the door that Is banged shut bung?
A word that we speak is spoken.
| Why don't we say it is spake?
Our girl, when pitcher is broken
| Zach, Louis!' she says, ut ISIS break!'
| r. we lie when we say that we laid
| And we lay when we said that we lied.
| Why don't we speak Of the needles we played
! Or tell Of the pieces we piled?
| A fish that we catch isn't catched,
! And the roof that we thatch isn't thaught.
why don't we speak Of thought that was
/ matched 5.. ..
| Or hear OF an egg tnaL was uduSnC!
II picture that's hung isn't hanged,
But the man who is hanged isn't hung,
! Why isn't the song that we sing sanged,
Or any old thing ever thung? d..
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