Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — Chinese Idetatry. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Idetatry.

atreua rites, tvre negative features plaoe their temples op a higher level than those of any other heathen land. Thera has been no ’uatance of human saortfloe aad no dolfloutton of vice. No human victim was ever Immolated on a Chinese altar. The cruel rites praottoed by the ancient Britons, Axtecs aad Egyptians would horrify too humane monks who teach the preservation of oil Ufa. No Chinese religion# sect has ever countenanced in its temple rites the least taint ot such licentious orgies as ware found in too hisrodull danoe to Aphrodite Pandemos or the obsoenc rites of the Durga-pula. The Chinese pantheon, to its oredlt bo it said, has never oon tain ed a Tonus, Lakshmt, My. Utto, or an Aehtorrth. No nautoh girls as in India, or oourteaane as In anoient Grecos, ever found employment In o Chinese temple. Votaries of pleasure though the Chinese are, they have never allowed vies and obscenity to find a ptaee In their temples and mythologies. How ter that has operated to preserve them as n nation, while contemporary nations have gone to decay, who shall the Chinese believe In fiends aad evil spirits and propitiate thorn Just to keep them from mlsohlef, their deepest homage IS called forth in the worship of the heroes of their nation and the pa trinoha of thslr tribes.