Word: confucius
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After the opening prayer and hymn, papers on the following subjects were read: Mohammed, by E. W. Capen '97; Confucius, by H. C. Stanley '97; The Religion of the Hindoos, by H. G. Dorman '96; and Buddha, by W. E. Blodgett '96. J. E. Hubbard '98, the presiding officer, in speaking of the relation of these religions to Christianity, said that although we can learn much from the beautiful lives which the founders of them led, nevertheless the excellence of Christianity becomes manifest by comparison...
...really fulfills this need of a hero. He is Jesus Christ. The gentle Buddha, the boasted hero of Asia, had no way of leading his followers except by example. He could arouse no feeling or thought in them; for that they had to rely on themselves. Confucius, the great Chinese agnostic, aroused no religious reverence among his people. The Chinese may lead moral lives, and yet remain atheists; they are mere worshippers of ancestors...
...time the Jews had looked with a broader or narrower vision for a deliverer of their race. This forward looking was the distinguishing feature of the Jewish religion. So that when so simple men as the shepherds heard the angels' song they needed no interpretation of the message. Confucius, Zoroaster and Socrates had all prophesied of some one to come who should relieve humanity. All men, even in our own day, are seekers, eager and earnest in their quest for something larger, nobler, and diviner than the present affords. It is the spirit which draws 3000 men to this place...
...Confucius was not troubled with this doctrine of withdrawing from the world. He spent his life actively, doing all he could for men, reviving the old morality and doing his best to remedy the evils of the time...
...contemporary Laotse was a man of a totally different stamp. Both he and Confucius were deeply religious; Laotse's religion, however, was embodied in the idea of kindness and love. Laotse's teaching was one of a mystical connection with God; that of Confucius was active service with man. Each in his way was perfect, yet each lacked the qualities of the other. The final perfection came in Jesus, who taught a service to man together with a mystical reverence...