Excerpt from Prince Siddartha: The Japanese Buddha
In many respects this is a very unusual book. While it has the interest of a story, it will be peculiarly fascinating to many minds because from the Oriental point of view it relates the life of a great religious leader, who bears sway over uncounted millions of our fellow men.
This book is not open to the charge of being colored by Western prejudices or preconceived Christian ideas, for it is a translation, not literal, to be sure, but substantially accurate, of the Japanese" own account of their greatest god. It speaks the best word that can be spoken for Buddha and Buddhism.
It presents the hero, whether he be a mythical or real character, in the most attractive light. The mellow haze of Oriental imagination covers up whatever is false and hideous in the religion of the East and presents that which is most worth studying.
As an account of the best things which a false religion can say for itself, it is well worth reading.
As an attempt to put us in sympathetic relation with the thought and aspirations of the devout souls in the far East it has a claim upon every Christian, but above all will it be of use, I believe, in showing every reader how infinitely superior the religion of Christ is to the best of false religions.
The light which sometimes shines from Asia is a false and flickering Jack-o"-lantern. Its uncertain rays may lead many a young person astray unless he traces it to its source and finds what a poor phosphorescent glow it is, after all, as compared with the light that shines from the Sun of Righteousness.
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