El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-27

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So good and evil, pains and pleasures.
hates
And loves and all dead deeds come
forth again
Bearing bright leaves or dark, sweet
fruit or sour"
Bhddhists believe in strict and i'm
partial justice, represented by Karma-
"Au that total of a soul
Which is the things it did, the thoughts
it had,
The Self it wove. with wool Of view
less time
How man hath no fate except past
deeds,
No hell but what he makes, no heaven
too high
sleep subdUed."
Render Good for Evil.
Resist not evil and render good
for evil' are Buddhist precepts. and
were first preached in view Of the
applicability OF Karmic law in which
each
New life reaps what the old life did
How where its march breaks off its
Holding the gain, and answering for
the loss,
And how in each life good begets more
good,
Evil fresh evil; death but casting up
Debit or credit, whereupon the account
In merits or demerits stamps itself
By sure arithmetic,
on some new springfng life
wherein are packed and scored past
thoughts and deeds
Strivings and triumphs, memories and
marks
OF lives foregOne."
Jesus taught With what measure
ye mete 1t shall be measured to you
again" and As you SOW so shall you
reap
by this the slayer's knife did stab
The unjust judge hath lost his own
defender,
The false tongue dooms its lie, the
creeping thief
And spOiler, rob to render.
such is the law which moves to
Righteousness.
Which none at last can turn aside or
The heart Of it is Love. the end Of it
Is Peace. and Contamination sweet;
The Hindu Savior.
Krishna. born 1900 B. c.. also re-
puted to be 1000, b c., was the most
celebrated "avatara" divine incarna-
tiOn) of Vishnu. the savior" OF the
Hindus. He is the avatara, the son OF
Dvaki, and nephew Of Kanshu, the
Indian HerOd, who seeking him among
the shepherds and cowherds who con-
cealed him, slew thousands OF their
newly born babes.
The story Of Krishna's conception, I
birth and childhood is the exact pro-
corrobOrated and demonstrated by i'm
nBrishable monuments, deep chiseled
indentures burrOwed into the granite
rock, which bid defiance to time. There
is a rock temple al Mathura, in the
form OF a cross, inside the temple
statue Of Krisha.
The history Of Krisha CChrishna
Zeus) Cor Jeseus, as some writer's spell
it, is contained principally in the Bag
hawai- Gita, the episode portion Of the
heved to be divineIy inspired, like all
other bibles, and the Hindus claim for
II an antiquity OF 5000 years II
Like Christ, he was OF humble origin,
and like him had to encounter oppo-
sition and persecution.
His pathway was thickly strewn
with miracles. healing the sick, curing
lepers. restoring the dumb deaf. and
weak, comforting the sorrow stricken,
relieving the oppressed, casting out :
devils, etc.
Came to Purify Religion.
He came not ostensibly to destroy
the previous religion, but to purify 1t
of its impurities and preach better
doctrine as he declared, Ito reject evil
and restore the reign OF good and re-
deem man from the consequences Of (
the fall and deliver the oppressed I
earth from its load Of sin and suffer
ing"
His disciples believed him to be God /
himself and millions worshipped him I
as such in the time OF Alexander the l
Great, $50 B. c.
He spread among the people doc /
trines Of the purest morality, and ini- I
tiated his hearers into the exalted I
principles of charity. or self-denial and I
self-respect at a time when the desert [
countries of the west were inhabited I
only by savage tribes"
Purity OF life and spiritual in
sight" we are told were distinguish I
ing traits OF the character Of this sin I
atoning divine evidence Of man and !
''he was often moved with compass /
sion for the downtrodden and suf I
fering."
Precepts Of KrishnR.
Some OF his precepts were:
Those who do not control their pas
sions cannot act properly towards 9th
ers.
The evils we inflict upon others fol- /