Man

has no fate save past deeds: no Hell but that which he makes for himself. I am but as those who cry unheeded to gods, Yet surely there is help for all.” A Buddhist monk of 1892 (in a Japanese journal published by the Shing-on sect) considers the succe of Christianity to be due to the moiety of truth that it contains, not including Vicarious Sacrifice, Incarnation, or Trinity, but only the doctrine of a creator. “ Buddhism,” he says, “expounds the attributes of god more minutely, but the strength of Christianity—like that of Con fuci an ism—lies in its practical moral teaching: doing, not knowing only, is its great theme.” Thus he brings us back to the Narrow Path common to both these faiths, This however marks much effacement of the original Buddhism: for Theism, even a generation ago, was not commonly taught by Buddhists. When we were in the East no such views were allowed to be advocated: though here and there an educated Buddhist might whisper a little Theism to us in private. The spirit of this age of culture, and of world-wide travel, is rapidly disintegrating all creeds, Buddhist Sutras were still oral when the Vedas were written down.