Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1913 — Asiatic Creeds. [ARTICLE]

Asiatic Creeds.

Few people realize the growth of Asiatic cults and religions in America. It is stated on apparently good authority that this country now holds 15,000 sun worshipers, and an equal number of Buddhists. Probably ten times aB many persons have covered the Oriental basis of their new creed with a veneer of western Christianity. The number of dabblers in the "mystic” cults of India now among us cannot be guessed. There is no cause for alarm at this growth of Orientalism. Neither is it a thing to be proud of. Mysticism, sensualism, lethargy—these In varying proportions are woven in the texture of every Asiatic creed that la seeking converts here. These creeds -do not and cannot fit the busy life of our land today, and for that very reason they will make no dangerous progress in this land. The growth of pagan Orientalism In America Is remarkable, but, after all, It touches only the fringe of our population. <