South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 234, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 22 August 1919 — Page 11

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JAPAN COP ES

THEM ADAPTS AND INVENTS

Three Stages of Nipponese Evolution Expounded by fJative Statesman.

was written in th Chlruxe l'inS'.jhkc, anri th believers cffT"3 :h ir prayer in that toncue. "At one time IIuddhiffM mad? 'jch h stride as to become almost a -tat religion. t'it the common topl? rtiil opppOHf.fl it. With U dt-tff-mmatli.n to uphold their own Shtntoi.m. Cor.srqupntly a most tcrriM" -truKKlr betrari brtwf-en the two religions liuddhism in the hands of the upper clapri and Shlntoim in the hearts of the

common people.

J-'uch a content as

to do. Krorn thi'j procrt?s of IJuddhism

r.rw doctrine was tok complete hold

period the with this

wonderful and of the popular

In our religious history as a Japanfe Martin .uther. ' Hf re opjtion!zel the fundamental princip.? vf P.Kd'ihivrn ) " a nrw dortrin". for

up to that tim' Huddhism stren i- j nr.nd." o-jly upheld a monastic life, and th. priest werr- compelled to live ! JQ RECOMMEND REPAIR in celibacy and abstain from catinc i . . . . Ä . any ,nm.,l food. Hut this famous FOR LINCOLN HIGHWAY pri-- r j-eein;: the popular mind al- j

re.tdv turned toward Huddhism

HAD TO CALL IN THE NEIGHBORS

Couldn't Do Housework Re htorvtl Ity Tanlao.

This Is the only medicine T've

n-er taken that does just what they -ay it will ilo." .iul Mrs. J. I Kock. II. F. D , No. 4. Fiatt. II!.. in telling her ?xprricnco with Tanlac. "For 11 y.-irs." continued Mr Hook, "I sufl'ert-d with stomach trouble and was in a general run !own condition. bi.t it s all different ith me now, for three Lotties of Tanlac almost made a new woman of rne. I lost my appetite and Kot - that actually I would fret Mck fl.e smell of food cookinc. What litt I did manage to force down would caiife pa. to form, and pr s around my heart so lad at times ! :ou Id hardly wet a t--ti.l t-reith I ' (-ill! have crampinc- paiii in the : it f my stomach which would last .' r many hours, then to make matt.rs worso my kidneys Nvamo aft.cted and I had tvrrib'.e pains in :-.v ! a'k and sides and at times ouM hardly turn over :n b d I rin.iy Kot so w ik and run down I ouidn't lo my housework and had t call in the neicht'ors to help me. I was so nerius the least little : oi-v would I'pset me. arid I cou'.d .-'f'P hut very little nt nicht "I was In this very cor.d'tiop. when heard about Tanlac and asked ::.y husoand to tet ir.e a Lotto , ai.d 'o my htirpne and delight I started

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"Whjt manner of folk are thi .la pa n r ? "What fort of pods do they worship? "What kind of law do they have? "The? are a few of th questions th'4 western world H asking in view of th universal interest aroused in Japan'. controversy with China nMut the hantunp; concfns;on." sa;.s a toilletln from th National r.eotrr.inhlic t-oclety. Ity way of reply, the bulletin lu'des from a eorrntinlcatlon to the roeltty by Baron Kentaro Ka-ti-ko, written bfor the world war trave ri o to -fa controverFlal questions, as follows: "The Japanese have a peculiar rharacter. When they com in ontact with a foreign civilization they nlway co through three stages of evolution. First, they pass through the stae of imitation. At

thi period they imitate everything j that romfn from a foreign sourc, jand I mUht s.ay that they blindly ; J" (ipy. Hut after some years of iml- ! f

tation they arrive at th stage of adaptation; then at lant th'-y reach th st';pro of origination. These three stages are clearly shown by our history. If we only examine into the inner workings of the Japanese mind. Folbmrtl Oil neso. About 1,500 years a?o, when we introduced the Chinese civilization into our country, we copied everything after Chinese fashion. At that time wo had no national alphabet. There were some Forts of tdgns to express ideas in wrltlncr. and even these sdns differed in different parts of the country. The Chlnere. had a highly devedoped type of hieroglyphics to express their Ideas; therefore at one time the Chinese hieroglyphics took such a hold on the mind of the Japaneso that wo adopted them as our national language. "This period might be called the era of Imitation. Fortunately there came a scholar tho most famous scholar we evtr had by tho name of MabJe. who returned from China In 735 A. D. He was in China many years for his education at Chlnrso schools. When he came back h mw what was most needed In his native country, and he Invented out of the Chineso hieroglyphics tho forty-seven characters of our alphabet, founded upon the principle of phonetic language. As you know, the Japaseso language is phonetic, whereas tho Chinese 13 hieroglyphic. Copied Itrllglon, Too. TVo havo passed through thre ptagea in our religion just as much bj In our literature. "Buddhism was first introduced into Japan through Korea in the year 552 A. I". At first nuddhlmr. was embraced by the higher classes, particularly among scholarly circles, but the lower classes or common peoplo still clung to their old faith of hlntolsm. Those who believed In Buddhism wenfm f ir .n to copy the ceremonies and ritualisms, The doctrine of Buddhism

this rdoeked fvery step In Japan's pro-cref-s but finally the statesmen and priests t.eran to understand that they no longer could force upon the people a blind Imitation of Buddhism. and they changed the:- policy and tried to f.nd out some, means to meet th requirements of the time. Here again .e

reach I he statre of adaptation.

Indent Nw Theorie. "They invented an ingenious theoy of explaining and interpreting th religious principle cf Buddhism. Tney adapted the theory of

Monotheism as well as Polytheism j bv saving that there Is onlv one Su- ,

started a new doctrine that a priest, being human, is Just as much susceptible as laymen, and abstinence from human wants is against th" laws of nature; moreover, a priest must I've among the people so as to understand the real nature and feeling of man and woman; therefore a monastic life should be given up and priests should eat animal food and get married, if they desire

Spe. :al t Tt, News-Tlme : IaATOIITK, Ind.. Aug. Tl. L. A. Cummins. repräsentativ e of the Fnited States bureau of public works, in conference with M.iyor Sallwasser of this city, -Thursday, announced that he would make recommendations for the entire reconstruction of the Lincoln highway from Importe county to the Illinois state line.

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prrie i'ower, which is personified i

J in the form of various gods and j goddesses, .according to the differ- (

ent countries and different lnstitu- !

tlnns. Th is they reconcile the principle of th one Supreme Power in Buddhism with the Polytheistic theory of Shlntoism. "In crder to convince the popular

mind with this theory Emperor

Shornu patronized a movement to erect a large bronze Ftatue of Dalbutsu cr Huddha at Nara. an 1 this statue was erected In 752 V !., after It years In casting and construction. "In the beginning of th? 1'uh century there was one priest bv the name of Shinran, who Is considered

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