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...address the President of the United States, were it not for the fact that I have traveled many thousands of miles only to deliver to him a message which millions upon millions, who believe in the Buddhist teachings of mercy and tolerance as expounded by the great Saint Nichiren, of Japan, wish me to deliver...
Speaking for the followers of the teachings of Saint Nichiren, it is my first duty to convey to you their heartfelt gratitude for your and your countrymen's magnificent generosity...
Love is supreme. Its voice can never be drowned by the tumult of politics. Of all times this is the Mme when the followers of Nichiren should unflinchingly and steadfastly stand by his eternal doctrine of tolerance, love and righteousness. My second duty, then, is to convey to you, and through you to the American people, the humble assurance that we who endeavor to follow Nichiren will do all in our power to convince our countrymen that the way to set American-Japanese relations aright is to walk in the footsteps of the Great Saint...
...five remaining books in press are all on religious subjects. "Nichiren: The Buddhist Prophet," by Masaharu Anesaki, of the Imperial University of Tokyo, discloses the striking personality of one of the most interesting figures in the history of Japanese Buddhism. "The Aramaic Source of Acts 1-15," by Professor Charles Cutler Torrey, of Yale, will be the first volume of a series of Harvard Studies in Theology. The second will be "The Pauline Idea of Faith in its Relation to Jewish and Hellenistic Religion," by Professor William Henry Paine Hatch, of the General Theological Seminary of New York...