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Show 'Buddha caching Qui for CotvOcis. Frctn the Tern- "TTS TyS pier of lbs JVV.W ( fA ? uvI'A C fy. 1 Hengtoanji. in Cr"' V! ' kZjrj Trusts A r, J "W Q , , 7 " - Zr? s, ? S . J -EcinJ Sent t ! ' S. ! S , y) Abroad to i'l-- 1 1r A " ' , Study JVeUfsr " X S' I - ' J . siW Wftr . yA band of worshippers. But these have been mystics, who have found their clientele frequently among the not too brainy persons who were' in the search for some new form of worshiping the non-understandable. It is not this way with the Abbot ntani. He is the embodiment of liv- For centuries Christianity has been sending missionaries to Japan to convert con-vert the natives. Now the Japanese are proposing to reverse the proceeding proceed-ing and to send one of their leading cults to America and Europe to convert con-vert the poor, benighted Christians. But they will do so with a difference, lor instead of the pennies which the American missionary societies can collect for their work they will be backed bv uncounted millions in Jap- as to the American. And there are no -more varieties there than here. Though they have no Dowie, no con-i con-i flicting sects of Methodists, Baptists, Campbellites, Catholics and Episcopal ians, they get along comfortably well with different brands of Buddhism, Shintoism and some sprinkling of Confucianism. Con-fucianism. And with all these they think they are more able to spare a bit to the Christians than, th latter to them. Abbot Otani Kozon has seen his pow- ing energy. His religion is a living, vital one. To him it is the only true one arid he seeks to extend it because to him that extension is as necessary for the world's weal as the extension of Christianity is to the Pope of Rome. ' When he sends his missionaries, though they live as he does, abstemiously, abstemi-ously, drinking and eating sparingly, and denying themselves comforts not absolutely necessary, they will be etmiDped' with money tor their tern- ,anese gold. This work will he directed and supported sup-ported by the man who in all Japan, with the exception of the emperor, owns and controls the greatest amount of wealth. He is Otani Kozon, Buddhist Bud-dhist Abbot of the Nishi Hongwanjl sect Not only is he fabulously rich, in his own fight, but he possesses as well the unbounded faith and love of his people to such an extent that at his call their purses open as purses open nowhere else in the world for such a call. s - Religion Is as dear to the Japanese er at the head of a Buddhist sect Biuv steadily until it reaches through the Orient, to the Philippines and Hawaii, and even to the Pacific coast of America Amer-ica And with the same enthusiasm i that burned in the hearts of the Jesuits,, Jesu-its,, he longs to extend his faith farther. far-ther. What his wealth will do in this regard re-gard who can tell? There are already Buddhist sect even here in Chicago Now and then a visionary member of the faith has come from i India,..-and established , himseif at the, head of a 'pies which will not require any stinting stint-ing They will spend a million for a temple for their American capital, and half as much more for another in each great city. They will send out students stu-dents to learn the ways of Christians, and they, will visit and proselyte m the homes of the poor and carry with them material and medical aid to their converts, just as they wish and just as Christian missionaries will do, lor 1 they will he well jajpUed-CWcago i Tribune. .' ' .. ... . .i |