The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-18

lated OF him. showing that he wrestled
with and conquered the powers OF evil.
and relating that one day he tainted
and his followers left him for dead.
But regainins consciousness, the
prince, in q state of abject weakness
and distress bordering on despair LETT
the jungle. and tottered into a Wiz
iage, where an Indian woman gave him
food The tradition of the Bo-tree
tells how Gautama sat down under
one and stayed there all day in utter
doubt, feebleness and sense Of failure.
But as the sun sank. what he called
The Great Peace"-the great enliGht-
stood he said Religion was not
vigils, penances, fasts, necessarily, nor
chiefly. 1t was Love to God and our
fellowmen. and wise trust In the
divine wisdom and love. His brain
cleared perfectly. His heart was like
a birds when 1t reaches its own nest
His soul was like the infinite sky
above him-he was from that moment
the Buddha-.'the Enlightened one.
He rose and went to Benares where
some of his old pupils lived. and began
perfectly different life. He was so
full of joy and power that they hardly
knew him. He ate in moderation
whatever he chose. He got back his
strength and health, and being re-
preached by them for giving up as
ceticsn he told them why he had
abandoned penance and fasting 1t
was his first sermon, and the Buddhist
legend says that gods and angels and
the underworld came out to hear--that
though he preached in Pail, every man
heard in his own tongue. He continued
to preach in a pleasant park in Be-
mares sermons in which he literally
poured out his love upon his people.
He used all the simple things of earth
and air after the Oriental fashiou, to
illustrate his meaning. He warmly
welcomed everybody, high and low. old
and young. rich and poor as we'll an
the distinguished for learning and
superiority. He was man of great
personal beauty. as we'll as kindness
and he believed In the personal equal
.ty OF all men--then the most startling
doctrine that could be preached any
where in Asia. He swept over his
audiences like fire in a. stubble field,
and Won them By thousands. not so
much by his wonderful logic as by his
infinite pity and love. In sin months
ne had attached TO himself sixty dis
ciples, then he and they began to travel
and to preach to the people, till the
rainy season set In, when he stopped
IN one place anu preached till 1t cleared
again. He converted three llre-wor-
shippers, hermts, and they taught
everywhere .'the law "the eight-tolds
path" the staying of the five great
passions because they obscure the
light" and an exposition of the four
noble truths Beals translation OF
.'the romantic" legend of the Burmese
Buddha gives most interesting ac-
count Of tho Journey OF the eldest
Kachiapa and Gnutama down the val
ley of the Ganges to tho city of a GER
tain Ratah. The two men each made
great impression, AS Gautama,
whose face shone." told them that
life was every mans bearing the re-
suits of his own conduct, be he Brahm
or Sudra, prince or mendlcant, In
tattcrs, homeless, hungry or rich,
titled, in q palace or all .he palaces
on earth; that works of mercy ana
henevolence, of Justice and repentence,
produced inward publication, and that
every creature on earth belongs first
to God, and then to all around him,
like ST. Paul, he reasoned sd we'll and
eloquently OF righteousness, that the
Raiah became his convert, gave him
his protection. and Furthermore. pre-
scented him with an open-air site for
preaching, whore he made numerous
converts. and the poor tiocked to him.
Buddha. now was called "Bhagnva"
#(the Blessed, "SakSa- Mum" Cthe
Sagcl, "Sattha" (thc Teacher), "Loka-
Natha (the Prince OF this World,
"Dharma Rajah" (the King of tho
Law, but was best known MS Buddha
tthe Eg!ighted One). and before long