To the Editor of the "NortH-Cama DaiLy News."
Sin—I have read with consider-lable interest your leader in to-day's the subject mentioned true that Buddhism is lence more active in the Far East, and many of the scholars of Japan, China and Indin are devot~ attention to the study and Propagation of the religion of Sidhatha Gautama. It does not mean that Christianity is failing in the East. The truth is that the teachings of the Christian Bible are presented to the Asiatic in a foreign zarp, by men who care more for the form than the spirit of it, Eh wax an Aalatic. if there was a Christ at all, and what he taught not very different fiom che tead ings of the Buddha. Bat at present we are taught more of the Church than of Jesus. 1 do not subscribe te the view tha the missionaries are servants of imper-ste us to promote the: imperialistic interests of the land" they come from; but it ix evident their teachings, though excellent and elevating, do not sound like Asiatic tenchings.
The Chinese need Christianity: ax much as they need Buddhism. religions being fundamentally" tr must know about them in order to understand his own Tigion well. But where are th teachers who will teach the Bible to the Chinese in the same spirit in which Dharmarakaka, Lokvanhu, Vimalkirti and others tang! Buddhism to the Chinese?—The Chinese are of a philosophical tuyt of mind, and mere stories of jades of Jesus will not appeal to them. Such stuff they have already in their own home. They need the Philowcphical side of Christianity taught in a spirit of tolerance, and not merely to make converts, Before coming to teach the Chinese our missionaries must make their own interpretation of the doctrines Kshanik yada, Yogachar, and shun ya vad, ete., in the light of the: teachings of the Bible, and I am sure the Chinese will like Christianity.
Tam, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.