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I do not wish to be severe on Buddhism. The reason why I think it a 
failure in reference to the view of right and wrong is not 
Vinve vices and do not always practise virtue, but because the y 8 
which they are told are virtues and vices you cannot su< ^ ' * e “ 
practise or avoid. Their priest tells them they need not w* and they 
them not ^ 
practical eno g a C h rist ian does wrong he knows it is wrong . it 
resist a temptat . the Buddhist priest never goes 
“ VsuTmtn tZScoZts himself with himself leading an ascetic 
, jf t h e people care to listen to his recitation of the same books, 
recluse life. H the ^ ^ Ag ^ ^ Budd hi st s being mis- 
they “ay i f not lic is s p y is tmg of the sort among 
rr’lt • a cotumon thing for both priests and people to say, “ It may be 
tn t ' our Christianity will be the religion of our children, and you may teach 
> f Zl ToTl^Zn like to believe in Christianity they may do so, 
It to them. I change. We have been brought up in 
but as for ourselves we are too old to change. „ there w4s a 
they have not what we 
are^old, that manw^created in the image of Co^ ^ss^hingin 
the countenance and in theheartof man whmh i hrnGod Oftm. w_ 
were Christians. Christian h p , , ^ ^ we not Christ ians draw 
the faces of men ; and whe d sorrow for there was a whole 
near, I could not help feeling eep P expression told of a certain 
history written upon their coun ena was a believer 
hopeless subservience to vice, passion, revenge and fe ^ c(m _ 
the main in doing. (Loud cheers.) 
The Meeting was then adjourned. 
