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After the opening prayer and hymn, papers on the following subjects were read: Mohammed, by E. W. Capen '97; Confucius, by H. C. Stanley '97; The Religion of the Hindoos, by H. G. Dorman '96; and Buddha, by W. E. Blodgett '96. J. E. Hubbard '98, the presiding officer, in speaking of the relation of these religions to Christianity, said that although we can learn much from the beautiful lives which the founders of them led, nevertheless the excellence of Christianity becomes manifest by comparison...
Many of the great characters of history have touched us as noble types of manhood; but there is only one man who really fulfills this need of a hero. He is Jesus Christ. The gentle Buddha, the boasted hero of Asia, had no way of leading his followers except by example. He could arouse no feeling or thought in them; for that they had to rely on themselves. Confucius, the great Chinese agnostic, aroused no religious reverence among his people. The Chinese may lead moral lives, and yet remain atheists; they are mere worshippers of ancestors...
...which are derived La Fontaine's fables is very prolix and full of detail. One of the greatest collections of such fables is Aesop's, which is intimately connected with the tales of the East. Another great collection is that in the "Jataka," which contains 550 stories of the Buddha's former births. The sources of the first six books of La Fontaine may be traced to Aesop and to Pheidros; from seven to eleven the books were derived in their sources from the oriental, that is, the Jataka and Bidpai literature...
...charge of the excavations at Sicyon. Macmillan & Co. have recently published for Dr. Earle an edition of the Alcestic of Euripides, which has been receiving very favorable notice. Through Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Mr. More has published recently, in the form of a series of letters an account of Buddha's philosophy called "The Great Refusal...
Later Buddhism united the primitive belief with ontology derived from Brahmanical schools. Buddha was no longer the man Gotama, but the eternal and self - existent. With this expansion of the Buddha came the corresponding expansion of his mission of deliverance, carried on through many Buddhas - to - be. Mystical Buddhism strove to reach conceptions beyond sensual pleasure. It was the aim of the manifestations of the Eternal to make men partakers of the Buddha - nature. The goal of the true believer of communion, might be realized on earth by help of scripture and holy places, or spiritually in any world from...