"Tus, Buopisr Puotns's Prooness."—By Helen Hayes; from the Shi Yeu KI (Records of the Journey to the Western Paradise). by Wu Cheng en; Wisdom of the Dost Seric Stim Murray, Led, London.
Possibly in all countries and at all times, there have been zealots who saw visions and thought necessary to present the funda. mental truths of whatever religion happened to be concerned in popular, and even coarse, guise. Speaking without particularism, the need of religion is felt by both cultured and uncultivated, but the latter requines it to be either a mystery so remote and inexplicable to be accepted as unquestioningly as the succession of night and day, or so friendly and familiar that it can be brought into the simple home life as part of the humble yet vital routine of exist-fence, Bunyan in England, and to some extent Wesley, endeavoured to strip "religion of much of its mystery and to "popularize" it as the. producers of the Mystery Masques sought todo before them, and "General" Booth and his sue-leessers after them.
The Buddhist Pilgrim's Progress is exactly what the name suggests. Tu fact the resemblance to the mad tinker's book is so close that The story is founded upon the physical and spiritual experiences of a monk, Higen Tsiang, who Journeyed to India in the seventh century and brought back to China tthe books of the pure Buddhist faith after undergoing almost incredible hardships and frustrations. Wa the writer of the "Shi turned to these annals of real journey and founded upon it his drama oF panorama of a spisitual evolution to perfect Buddh hood. And Helen M. Hayes, has in turn, presented it in lively and attractive English. The Western Paradise is duly reached, and the record of the journey thither and ithe wayside adventures is a narrative that would be the delight—and the despair—of a cinema producer who cared for the authentic atmosphere—if such there be, Incidental-the search for the Western Paradise has actually often been presented on the stage.
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