s, cast out to earn rice elsewise and elsewhere, it was
outrage, which in individual instances called for reprisal in blood,
fire and assassination; to the Shint[=o]ist, it was an exhibition of the
righteous judgment of the long-insulted gods; in the ken of the critical
student, it seems very much like historic and poetic justice.

In our day and time, Riy[=o]bu Buddhism furnishes us with a warning,
for, looked at from a purely human point of view, what happened to
Shint[=o] may possibly happen to Japanese Christianity. The successors
of those who, in the ninth century, did not scruple to Buddhaize
Shint[=o], and in later times, even our own, to Shint[=o]ize Buddhism
while holding to Buddha's name and all the revenue possible, will
Buddhaize Christianity if they have power and opportunity; and signs are
not wanting to show that this is upon their programme.

The water of stagnant Buddhism is still a swarming mass, which needs
cleansing to purity by a knowledge of one God who is Light and Love.
Without such knowledge, the manifold changes in Buddhism will but form
fresh chapters of degradation and decay. Holding such knowledge,
Christianity may pass through endless changes, for this is her
capability by Divine power and the authorization of her Founder. The now
Buddhism of our day is endeavoring to save itself through reformation
and progress. In doing so, the danger of the destruction of the system
is great, for thus far change has meant decay.

CHAPTER VIII - NORTHERN BUDDHISM IN ITS DOCTRINAL EVOLUTIONS

"To the millions of China, Corea, and Japan, creator and
creation are new and strange terms,"--J.H. De Forest.

"The Law of our Lord, the Buddha, is not a natural science or a
religion, but a doctrine of enlightenment; and the object of it
is to give rest to the restless, to point out the Master (the
Inmost Man) to those that are blind and do not perceive their
Original State."

"The Saddharma Pundarika Sutra teaches us how to obtain that
desirable knowledge of the mind as it is in itself [universal
wisdom] ... Mind is the One Reality, and all Scriptures are the
micrographic photographs of its images. He that fully grasps the
Divine Body of Sakyamuni, holds ever, even without the written
Sutra, the inner Saddharma Pundarika in his hand. He ever reads
it mentally, even though he would never read it orally. He is
unified with it though he has no t