Show toleration and WILL IN GOOD religious political and boien methods compared intemperance Ex QUinER tn inclinations ot the human macd in it struggle after truth is a subject for respect rather then far rid cicula or contempt and one deservio de servin our utmost and mot lenons tenons consideration says one writer maa viewed in one respect ct almost resemy lea a demon in another he still bears the god seen in his crimes his wara and ins devastations tat ions he inist be mistaken for an incarnation of an evil blint contemplated in his schemes ul charity his dincov cries in science a bright intelli bonco from heaven another writer ducr ibea him thus the dark bouti nent of motive and desire hr never been explored in tha boriin that wondrous world with one inhabitant anere jita recesses dim and dark ous sands and dangerous shares where sirens tempt and fade streams that anso in unknown lands from hidden strange jeaa with ebb and flow oft ides bielawa bil lawa by of flame and aw ful depths by mists of dreams obscure and phantom realms where vague and fearful things are halt revealed jungles where crouch and skies of cloud and blue fancies ali with p wings that dazzled and nd the pour sovereign of this pictured wui id is led by old desires and ancient hates and by crimea of vanished years one of the to human progress is prejudice one class are ever ready to condemn ever abady and every thins which apisa not exactly harmonize with their inn of right and wrong the line once stretched whatever happens on either sida of ir whether s lal political or religions is condemned ai once anch a course is narrow and contemptible temp tible there is nettling in tue laible which can give creater breaden to thought thit pauls words i finally brethren whatsoever things are truo whatsoever thing are pure whatsoever tinned are just whatsoever aver things are lovely hata oever thing are of good report if there bo any virtus if thare bs any praise think OH thing tradition and balsa falsa philosophy have done much to warp and twist human out of tha line of pure fellowship and love of aach other religious opinion has built up cathelia ca thelic and protes taut churches which toe often become bitter enemies en amies why should this be the world was made for titue and alike oth can live in it and ventilate their thought why should there be hatred in question of science mea resort to investigation and moral character is never drawn into the contest why not be as ready to discuss religious reli sious tenets 13 dispassionately can any harm result from investigation if a question in chemistry is to be decided recourse is hd at once to the retort and crucible men do not assail each others moral character in settling mathematical physiological or chemical why should political foria an exception to the rule if one political party has mers truth thau adother au other free and rami discussion will show it whan men fear alie sunlight of rigid examination does it not imply on their part a doubt in the principles princ ioles they hold the biora any truth is examined the more clear and 1 id it appears men are nt afra i a diamond shoals be tested 1 it quality bor that un allone 1 be subjected to the birou t naida we insure the heathen but there is much in heathendom we do well to pra tk o differ widely in their cewa as widely as their makeup make up differs that all men may see ahe bbbie lelii rious truths alike at ane one identical abage of their development would a tin rough change in their aad mental characteristics historic illy it is a fact that all nations ibave so me religion civilized or uncivilized it i alie fiame the element of veneration enters largely into mans rutaro it is naturel fr him to glauce upward to a cipher intelligence to look fur comet jing to this ivorid the unknown forms one of hia most lofty aspirations alie love of mystery aed the of it is the one great spur to human progress alimia ute aiom the universe and all incentive to ceases il the silent of ali eternal futino ere at baco open te ilia view aind ita secreta existence would its greatest grea tast charm and ator ahia be entombed forever in taking a survey ot the world aud the religious i i that have operated therein of atio po vr they have had over the dt detiny tiny of man the student ef human nature is forced to th conclusion thai DO very largo part of mankind was ever aed by any faith without some grand for ita platform bud danam as a religion exerts an influence ivr people la they ed 94 OttOO marn than the christians boldia it ia baij came into the world in a miraculous manner II 11 s name means to know lle bard lie performs penances ie by the god of love and sin md death but lile christ before the rince of hell ue withstands their on chaitt ments he turns the wheel of ate th alf the lav of righteousness becomes a areat and hn sweeps over the world like the anina ot a god my lanis but one eaid the great buddhist er like heaven if fording room for ail rich and poor the learned aad unlearn ed buddhism carried the ants of indian to a daae broke up many a cruel custom and a blessing to a creater tiomi t asia he cun tin rive at buddhism are taj very embodiment of wisdom aari let ua nov see hoak near tb e so called hei thena approach in clr ty ft myral tha teachings f christianity first commandment Thou ehalt abstain aiom destroying or the destruction of adv living thing second thou ob etain from acquiring or reaping by fra udor evidence atie property of another third daou frodi theio wh kie not proper subjects of aliv acet thou abstain from deceiving by word r deed fifth thou abstain from a tion this last bonim dm n weald have added much to the purity ut ur own ten thus Hl artl afar him further for it ia a well known fact that rum baa daae inore to degrade and debauch tho human family than any other evil in ahe whole of christendom boere ae some evils in this world that are said to be necessary such for instance as demalt depravity and a few otner ant this infernal demon of ruca coats Tie itar aub among us an out even offering an apolony or a singly reason and proceeds at once to enier into sacred precincts of the happiest hap families making a desolate aad miserable earthly bell of many a domestic heaven stop you great christian moralist let us reason together for a moment in your mad career you rush wildly on through life blinded by foolish fanaticism to ail the great evils by which you are surrounded at berno you have spent many precious years praying for the redemption of the heathen in other lands etc though it may be repugnant to your feelings let ua go behind the icene awhile and pet away from world of theory and fine spun theological and look into the m marable hovels where alcohol has ita mark of misery bajt you cay 1 do not care to see this desolate desola tv picture I 1 was ed in an atmosphere of moral purity up in the fas honable part of the chiy i have a magnificent churuti I 1 got a large salary and my is a vary cultured one and it would make me rather unpopular to mingle with people antho lawer walks of life to a buddhist or mohammedan ham who shall pay a anit to a christian country it would seem that be would go back home impressed with the idea that rum was one of the ercal anil fixed institutions of christianity I 1 mention abia evil for tha of our christian brethren who hava such an exalted idea of oar own civilization and who have tear for the poor heathen mr edwin arnold save in bis licht ocasia that of our race aliye and die in the tenets of gauta matist included in thi magnificent empire of belief in china the doctrines of confucius are received as the highest authority hit baith dates hack five hundred years before the birth of christ and his influence Q th civilization of chiba in similar to that of and and socrates en the western world the influent hib teachings have on the whole social and political of the na kioa is truly wonderful at thae aee of thirty he bega his career as a teacher he did not build n the doctrine of divine revelation but erects a structure of moral philosophy founded on tha wants and tendencies of human datura at one tims european philosophers philo sephers vied with each ether in extolling the merits of confucius ahcin they as one of the teachers si mankind lie made ane knowledge of oneself the basis of all true advancement he expressed the whole duty of man ia these words do not bato others ahat which you would not hyc others do unto you this ia the golden rule in negative form christian sects mot rn over the darkness and ignorance of the chinea people who are sober and indus triona in their habits and a country that bank failure in years we are apt to accuse the chincie of the opium habit but where did they get it answer tram a christian nation england since the close of the last century china baa mida m ida a effort against its futher importation into their country may we not be vastly mistaken as to what constitutes a civilized civil izad and a heathen people how many idle and worthless lianera lia fera are found among the chinese in our american cities haw many drunkards who loaf around and yet the blaag that comes to this country ia the poor and consequently the nes hecei ulada tasa asked by hebard who further oay you liht eay that hav no neglected class in china that the are all made hy their rulers to becom educated if this be so then it is only mother argument in favor of their civilizing qualities I 1 believe it is a crime for any government to let the people grow up in ignorance is norance aa it would make this article tea lengthy to extend it I 1 will follow in another on mohamet and the turks toleration |