Show advice to a young man I 1 and Andt then henmy my bon BOD doni dont bain belu too great a hurry to tb accept advanced opinions it la Is the thing tobb to be advanced in this bie ble sia day and generation but there ia a heap of in it nid bid you jou neven never notice my bon aon that the man who tells tella y you yon 1 ou he ile cannot believe the bible bibie Is usually able to believe almost ildy siny anything thing ehret ebret else you will lii ili find men my m wu eon V who tio turn turu with horror and utter dis dib disbelief bellet beliet from the tha bibie Bible and joyfully embrace the teachings of buddha it is quite quitu the tiling thing just now bon aon for V a civilized enlightened man brought up in a christian ohr Chr istian country and an age of wisdom to be a buddhist and if you ask six men who profess buddhism who buddha was one of them will tell you he tras was an egyptian soothsayer who lived years before moses another will tell you that he brought letters Jetter arom from phoenicia and introduced them in greece a third will tell you that she was a beautiful woman of oF artber farther india bound by to perpetual chastity a fourth will with little hesitation 4 say he was a brahma of the ninth degree and a holy disciple of df confucius and of the other two one will frankly admit that ile lle he know and the other will eay with some bome inde elsion that he was either a dervish of the nile whatever that is or a felo de se be be he cant be positive which before you propose to know more than anybody and everybody else elbe my son eon be very vety certain that you are at let least abreast of two thirds of your fellow men I 1 dont want to suppress any inclination you may have toward genuine free tree thought and careful honest investigation ti my son I 1 only want you to avid the gret greit fault of atheism in this day and generation I 1 dont want to see aee you try to build a six story house bouse on a one story foundation before you criticism criticise critie critic ise lse condemn and finally revise the work of creation my son be pretty confident that you know something about it neilt ia is and dont asa aba as a man who is older in years and experienced than yourself dont lot let me implore you 9 dont turn this world upside down and aft down on it and flatten 11 tell terl it entirely out until you ha have e made ar secured ano sno another therone one for the rest of us to aliye in while you demolish the WB old one if ever eiter i hould bould develop into an advage advanced ed atheist my son just do that much for the sest feat of us burlington r i |