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myself that where I am, there ye may
| be also" The departed spirits of God S
/ children go to heaven.
There Is One God"
Our bible teaches, instead Of the 50
millions Of gods in India, there IS one
God" And there is one mediator be-
tween God and man. the man Christ
Jesus" In him was all the fulness
Of the deity manifested. He is trans
latiOn of the invisible God, TO mortal
sight. and to mortal comprehension
Seeing how he loved men, we under
stand something of the love Of God,
seeing how he fOrgave and healed the
guilty, we understand something of the
catch a glimpse Of the attributes OF
the holy God, without him humanity
has always CROPPED in darkness
But let US make no mistake. His IS
not salvation by character The saved
are not characterless although the
characterless may be saved. The peO-
pie whom Christ saves are not only
forgiven, but they are cleansed. regen-
Grated, and put in the way Of being the
best people on earth. We are saved
to serve. I'VE are created in Christ
Jesus unto good works"
Buddha's Doctrines.
We are told by our local essayist
that Buddha spread among the people
doctrines Of the purest morality" and
yet there are no people on earth with
lower standards of morality, in many
essential respects, than the people of
China Thibet, Ceylon and India, who
are Buddhists. BY their fruits ye
shall know them
''Buddhists do not kill animals for
food" OF course not According to
their absurd doctrine Of transmigra-
ton of souls, il a man ate a pig, or any
other animal he might be eating his
grandfather Paul says, in speaking OF
those who shall depart from the
faith" Il Tim ABB "FOrbidding to
marry, and commanding to abstain
from meats. which God hath created
to be received with thanksgiving OF
them which believe and know the
truth" And he adds. For every crea-
ture Of God is good, and nothing to be
refused If 1t be received with thanks
giving"
Buddha and Christ
The idea OF comparing Buddha with
Christ, and what Buddhism has done
for the world with what Christianity
has done, is simply absurd
There is one mediator between God
and man, the incarnate Christ" but TO
say that the last Buddba. Mr.. Sakya,
who has come 10 incarnation through
uncounted Uransmi grattons, stands on
a par with the accredited Christ, is an
historical absurdity. The historic
friends Of Buddha vary some 1000 years
in accounting for the times OF his last
appearance in human form, and the
reliable writer's Of histC ~ say that his
history is TO z great extent legend
ary," while so good historian and law
writer as Greenleaf. says: The life
OF Christ is the best attested fact IN
history"
OF course in this discussion I cannot
notice all the favorable comparisons OF
Buddha with our Lord which have re-
Gently appeared in print; suffice il to
say that most Of them are ridiculously
trivial Such, for instance, IS the little
paragraph which says: He spent
much time in retirement, and like
Christ in another respect, was once
tempted OF the devil he oIfered him
all the honors and wealth Of the world
But he rebuked the cevil, saying; BE
gone, hinder me not"
Innumerable Little Gods.
In pure Buddhism there Is no men
ton Of Cod" but there are innumer-
able little gods; how then could there
be a personal devil 70 tempt Buddha?
The American CyclOpedia gives on page
1898 of Vol. g, the picture OF "a modern
idol representing Buddha," and gives
these two examples OF the doctrines OF
Buddhism. 1T is heresy to believe the
worlds limited or nlimited, or neither
limited, nor illimited." Again: a
common formula Of arguing is this; a
thing is and is not, and IL neither is nor
is not" Buddhists have constructed |
prayer wheels" "a sort Of hollow bar
rel. which turns on an axis, and in l
many little scrolls. Is turned about /
Some are turned by hand, some by Z
wind or water, and some are merely I
kicked into motion by pasSersDy, DuI I
all are considered efficaciOus. 1 cannot 4
follow the absurdities OF this heather
ism further but raise my voice I
gainst the Womans club OF this city I
giving even quasi endorsement 10 II All
and one of our daily papers publish
ing an essay, setting Buddha up as one
Of the Saviors Of the world without d
s.The blessed Truth"
The blessed truth is, there is an in
finitely loving and wise father, God. i
who hath revealed himself to ms IN
relligent creatures, and there IS but
the one God. He would have al men
hath opened "a fountain in the house
Of David for all uncleanness, and main
sent out a universal invitation 10 All
men to come to him for forgiveness
and cleansing And as ne eanHot Ds
nercifuI at the expense Of justice he I
hath sent forth his son, to be the pro-
litiation for our sins In MIN mercy
and truth are met together rignJ-
and peace have kissed each
And in him, after the tolls and sor-
-ows of this life are over. We are to
ind a home i'm heaven A home OF
conscious blessedness, very oitterent
rom the fantastic annihilauon OF
Buddhism called 'Nirvana-"
ON. think OF the home over there,
Where the saints, all immortal and
han dwell with the good and the
,lessed throughout shadowless eter-
Grew in speaking OF the death OF a !
-ood Christian said: They had fin
shed her own crown in glory, and she /
ould not stay away from the corona
ion"
Mrs. Hemans, in trying to teach her
on about heaven, wrote;
Eve hath not seen il, my gentle bo,--
Ear hath not heard it's deep songs Of
Dreams cannot picture a world so
Sorrow and death may not enter
there Z
Time does not breathe on it's fadeless
bloom. +
For beyond the clouds and beyond the 9
tomb
II is there, it is there my Child"
Montgomery said. I
..There is a world above
Where parting is unknown. Z
A whole eternity or love 4
Formed for the good alone
And faith benOlde the DIVING her, Z p