"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 of
the State they represented, to the effect that California did not wish
to take the Philippine Islands, but they would take the other islands of
the Pacific, and also they would send Penloe and Stella to make a tour
through the Oriental countries to help forward the work of the Reform
Forces as they saw best. The delegation from California has made
arrangements with the delegation from New Zealand and Australia, so that
the latter take the Philippine Islands as their field of labor, as those
islands are near to them. Therefore the delegation from England and the
other countries who have taken Europe as their field of work, have
kindly consented to release Australia and New Zealand from helping them,
so that they might take the Philippine Islands. It might be well for me
to state that the delegation from California has waited on Penloe and
Stella, to ask them if they would go East, and I am pleased to say that
they have consented."
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