Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 49, 14 November 1893 — An Opinion on Christianity. [ARTICLE]

An Opinion on Christianity.

— In his dairy of the 15th of •March. lsl*0, Minister Hsneh, quoted bv the A orth Chiiut Daiiy y> i.*, expresses this opinion about Christianity:— Those in the West who follow the Christian religion aim at cultivating virtue and loving men, not veiy different from Confucianist>. Hnt as to the book> whieh the Church circulates, such as the OUl and New Te>tament>, their allegories and stories of the gods are not equal to such Chinose nove!s as the Canonisation of the Gods and Record of Tra»el to the West. Everv three-foot child knows that these stories are not tme. When occasionally meetiug men of learning of the Mest they seem to know this well, bnt are unwilling to say it ont plainly. I have met some who say that in a century or two more science will be daily advanced aml w'll put off all Christian books. As to Confucianism, all with one voice without exception approve of it. Althongh foreigners are also of complimentiug. still by carefully watching the tone the compliment seems in all sincerity of hearts. For the wav of onr s«ges is neither loeal, nor changeable, and penetrates deep into meu s raind. To eompare the sayings of Jesus ( hrist with Confucianism is it not like taking a pieee of glass and eomparing it with a diamond? Even foreigners are not ignorant that in ehina forraerly the doctrines of Yah and Meh, of Buddah and of Laotze, made a noise for a while and then after a timo died out again. Confuscianism islike the sun aud moon in the hoaveus, x although from of old they are still brighter than ever. China had uo intercourse with Enrope, Asia, and the other continents. Now that tbere is intercourse all their religious spread from one to the other. Thus wo kuow that Christianity \«11 deciine aiul Confncianisra will spread to the West.