Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1900 — MR. WU ON RELIGIONS. [ARTICLE]

MR. WU ON RELIGIONS.

Compares the Teachings of Christ and of Confucius. ‘‘The world is coming to Confucius. One of the signs is the growth of agnosticism,” said Wu Ting Fang, Chinese minister to the United States, before a large audience in Carnegie Hall in New York Sunday. The Chinese minister was talking on “The Teachings of Confucius.” He said that b4s religion and the religion of Christians agreed on the golden rule, but that outside of that all the advantage was on the side of the faith of Confucius. Wu regarded Christianity as a religion which it is impossible to follow. He quoted the precept “Love your enemies,” as a proof, and commented on it, saying that it was advice impossible to follow. He linked Horace Greeley and Confucius in their attitude of practicability and said that he agreed with them in their intensely human view of life. “The advocates of various religions want to make heaven a private park for their own adherents,” he said. “I do not believe heaven will be exclusive. It is my faith that good men will go there irrespective of dogma.”