of theirs, and the teachers
who are sent out by the West would help forward the work of the Reform
Forces by showing the natives that the ideas of the reform forces are
in the line of thought of their own great saints and sages. There is not
a delegate present who is not able to show that the work of the Reform
Forces is in accordance with the teachings of Christianity. I can also
clearly show to you from the teachings of the Zendavesta, of the Koran,
of Buddha, of Krishna, of Lord Gauranga, of Seyed, Mohammed Ali, and of
Rama Krishna, that the spiritual thought of the Reform Forces is in
accordance with those teachings. Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Gauranga, and
Rama Krishna, were all the manifestation of God in the flesh. They
towered head and shoulders above all others in the manifestation of the
Divine.

"Supposing I was a true follower of Buddha and a person who was a true
follower of Jesus spoke to me about the grand life and teachings of
Jesus, what would his opinion of me be if he saw that I was jealous
because he said nothing about Buddha, or because I thought the more
beauty and glory he saw in Jesus it lessened and belittled the character
of Buddha. Would he not be right in thinking I was ignorantly and
foolishly jealous, and that that feeling ought not to exist in a true
follower of Buddha? What then when you speak to a follower of Jesus
about the divine life of Buddha or Krishna, if he should become incensed
in manner and speech and manifest a feeling of jealousy, acting as it
were that in seeing the Divine in Buddha or Krishna made you think less
of Jesus. And yet that is a common experience which one meets with among
very many of the followers of Jesus. No, for in proportion as you live
the true Buddha life or Krishna life, so do you live the true Christ
life, and if I have imbibed the spiritual thought of Jesus, I have also
imbibed the true spiritual thought of Buddha and Krishna. Thinking that
the Divine was manifested in Buddha or Krishna, does not lessen the
exalted conception which one may have of the Divine manifested in Jesus.
_The Divine is in all_, but is manifested in some persons to a much
greater degree than in others."

Just before the Congress closed Mr. Rattenbury, one of the delegates
from California, rose to make a statement. He said: "Since the Congress
had assembled he and the lady delegate from California had been in the
receipt of numerous telegrams from persons living in different parts