| Show OIe I I Rhys David Professor of literature In ondon In nn an article In the tbt North American on Ih the great grat of the world e the belief that In an mankind will witness 1 a great g of Buddhism He buel basea this upon some facts leU which are re of oC Interest to 0 til the observer of f tta the religious movement o of the world 0 One of th these facts It is the reawaken In tag for education fluid are to print and Ind cir clr circulate their books They are founding schools for Cor bOth sexes n They are n boards board of education high schools and coli colleges Thy They are re sending lending students to western of oC learn learnIng In Ing for th the purpose of studying Pall and and they Are publishing ot of great eat literary excel lance Ince lanceIt It seem m therefore that the efforts of nf instead td of bulna resulted In the of this In ancient l t religious system h has awak d It W to III new life and nd activity And I when kI Its thoughts sal a are re pred ent d in II modern form Ute they are sure ure 11 hu have sees Influence hyl t eal only upon lh the mil of wilt who confess COD It its tenets but also allO u upon U ice views of life of philosophy lad and as 1 held In the W West Buddhism Is II a religion of charity and lId philanthropy h its phil I I hardly to In accord ecord wt with a modern science cl or reason lon In common with some of tb the Gnostic systems probably were framed under ander eastern tm In It linda ludo In IU life only OD an evil Fv Everything earthly I le vanity Iud and the treat wt et bU bliss obtainable I h the eternal rest rell of nf Nirvana where all 11 th the trog blue hlo Qt of UI life and existence Ir are ended a hi hns that ai be by bys s rp Ignorance passion and sin In InT T of tb the last Cut that thata a w a hIVe have heaped upon It restored too I e term tont to tA which Olla I t ID may becomes stepping stone for Cor forti U ti i w a to Uti Ike people It tit et Mia ihala Vie tory Cory wr ever edit It a Slid bauo Itt ate without which no 0 one can tol to low 01 the And AM In no religion IH car virtues more prominent than set In revival of f a sus t leanly lly dead rp re talon may mar be an tl ei h In the worlds world history No Ifo power te II greater for th the production ot et national Ii t and activity r than It sae all undo under r the Influence ot of Odin ot of rt fl ward for bravery In that th Ih nations nation ot of II northern Eur pe became con lOIl conquerors queron on Mad and sea na built hi vast under the alga of oC the Cro Creep Under th the inspiration or of orIbe the Ibe Leaching of Mohammed and Turk became na they were wert not hol r races hat has made Ot Britain and alleS what they ere I u and 1 tIe the builders Of tM the Irl lut Republic on onearth earth erth t thIr th lr work In the light of oC ut that religious zAI which made them a desert cIrt with I th their God Gad to toa toa a pla without Huum great nen h largely on the Implicit faith of oC U the e ell Cur subjects who sea Me In him the ot of God With reviving throughout Japan lilha China stain It am ud end Ceylon Celon who ell can tell what the result will bet betIt be beIt It mar Da form a bond of union between these rM races It may give Iv Japan th the for Cor which she Ihl is II evidently looking It ma may be th the of oC oCa ofa a such uch as 61 that spoken pole of oC under UM the name flame of oC 00 Dog and Maro Magog Who cn can sat that the unman Raiser KaIt was N not under the influence ot of lion be conceived of the famous cartoon representing a dark cloud from the east threatening to sweep with Out hut why endeavor to look beneath the VIII veil that hIdes the future from vI view The present lIat IndividuAl and national duties a are It If the they a are acceptably Performed the future will willbe willbe be all 11 right Everything Is II foreseen and everything wilt will ultimately result In Inthe Inthe the salvation and ml exaltation of 00 Gods 1 children through tile the Gospel of oC J Jesus UI |
