of holiness bestowed upon the earth. "Why do not the Jews accept the Hebraic Christian Messiah?" "Let me answer you from their own authorities. In 1700, at the ducal court of Hanover, Rabbi Joseph of Stadthagen, refuting from Scripture all the arguments of his antagonist Eliezer Edzard, who had instigated the discussion, with the full approval of the court, declined to answer under oath the question as to which religion was the best. He said: 'We condemn no creed based upon the belief in the Creator of heaven and earth. We believe what we have been taught; let the Christians adhere to and practice-what they have been taught.'" Nahmanides the Hebrew, disputing with Pablo Christiani at Barcelona, 20 July, 1263, in presence of James I of Aragon and his court, replying to the question, "Has the Messiah come?" fearlessly replied, "I cannot believe that the Messiah has come as long as the promised cessation of all warfare has not been realized." And now in the Capture of Jerusalem on Britain's Day, 1917, we see the approaching federation of the world to be brought about by the Christ-spirit of humanity and internationalism proclaimed of old from Mount Zion and Uru-Salim the City of Peace, and where now the new Great World Mother, the Red Cross Society, is federating her work. God hasten the day.

Let me repeat, "Born of the Holy Spirit of Wisdom of God the Father, were Mary and Her Son Jesus Christ," as foretold by Moses and the prophets of old in "the woman herself will win the victory, she will be victorious through her child," and by Isaiah, "The Lord hath created a new thing upon the earth. The woman shall protect the man,' "" to which Church commentators add, "She shall come to regard herself as the fount and guardian of

man's honor; through the regenerated woman, guilty nations will return to the friendship of God"; truths especially confirmed by Timothy and John of Patmos. Unfortunately, you will find a multitude of men and women of Christian sects, differing on minor points of doctrinal teaching mostly unimportant, who, judging from their individual inherited weaknesses, regard this creed as an impossible ideal for human life.

The attitude of average civilized humanity towards religion is that of Benjamin Franklin, who wrote at 84 years of age: "As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think his system of morals and his religion, the best the world ever saw or is like to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble." And this will be the attitude of average decent humankind, until theologians can "get together" and bring their philosophy of religion down to the clear, comprehensible, scientific basis of unity which can be found in the doctrine of the trinity of the spirit of goodwill governing father, mother and son.

"Christianity is a bigger thing than any Church. If religion in the churches does not begin very soon, religion without the churches will begin to establish the unity of God's family in the brotherhood [and sisterhood!-Ed.] of His children, and the gospel of Jesus will sanction it," thus wrote the Rev. Karl Reiland of New York city, 12 Dec. 1915. "There is beauty in all religions," said Julian the Apostate. As Littré has written, "To discard

religion as mere superstition betrays an unphilosophical mind The main idea of developing the religions of the past, which are not false, but only incomplete religions, into a religion that shall be in accord with the science of our day, is not a vagary, but a great and important ideal."

We Orientals, with the rest of humanity, struggling, groping upward to the higher light that we see in Christian civilization must therefore look at the question from all viewpoints and the conclusions which we gather and the lesson which we must learn to go back and teach our millions, still steeped with the rest of the world in the fallacies of phallicism is this:-"Mind is the ultimate reality and virginity is to be understood as that mental state of moral reverence for bodily integrity which exists in male or female, even if physical violation is perpetrated against the will. Those purists who pharisaically plume themselves on physical virginity are not really virtuous when this state co-exists with vicious mental and secret desires of carnal lust."

In a glorious wave of reform along these lines, through the Anglican work of the Holy Catholic Churches of Japan and China, Light has come to our Buddhist priesthood, and all churches must similarly be reformed and renew Faith in terms that meet the times. As the Catholic Roman and Greek churches celebrate Buddha in Saint Josaphat the convert of Barlaam, so the Buddhists see in Christ Jesus the ultimate incarnation of the spirit of Buddha, and are preaching

"Buddha is Light, and Light is Wisdom."

For the teaching of children a modern illustrated card represents the holy mother crowned as "Wisdom," her heart symbolizes the Church, in her arms is the holy child Christ-Buddha the Eternal GOD

and FATHER. "Circumcise your heart," preached the great prophet Moses, "and not your body." Another card illustration is the Mother-Nurse with the scarlet symbol of the Red Cross not on the brow and mind as in the Occident, but covering the heart, the seat of affections. She is guiding the beautiful child-daughter clad in the snow-white garb of innocence and purity who is holding the hand of the protecting child-son dressed in a military uniform, the latter symbolizing that the military virtues must be cultivated in the male-not for offense-but ever ready for the defense of girlhood and womanhood, of the weak and helpless, of justice and righteousness. You who may be incredulous or curious on this subject may see these illustrations reproduced with typical imperceptive western comment in the Literary Digest of 22 September 1917, page 33.

As already said, the prophets of old continuously preached, and the preaching still continues with every generation, against the indiscriminate abuse of carnal lust, and the rank weeds of debasement, coarseness, evils, sin, disease, cancer, hereditary degeneracy, leprosy and death it entails. Plant culture-Mendelism-is a great illustrator of this physical fact, as the differences between wild and cultivated products show; while the difference between the undisciplined, unclean mind, and the clean, refined mind of humankind, is just as apparent.

"East and West the twain can meet" and learn the lesson of Humanity in the common-sense AngloAmerican Creed of mind purity in womanhood, inculcated with virile reverence. Free from that mawkish sentimentality which has produced so much moral ruin in some Latin and Oriental countries, and by reversion, the carnal bestiality and rampant

brutality of Germany, to say nothing of other northern countries, as revealed by both earnest and flippant novelists. Hear what Merrill, the spiritual sage of California, says:

"Judea, Greece, Italy,-What were these glorious countries and their peoples but a trinity of spiritual kindergartens to prepare the way for Jesus and his Word. Afterwards they had to undergo a second incarnation in the spiritual womb of the mighty mother church of Rome to gestate properly the infantile and even the larval man of those times, which she received at the hands of barbarian Goths, Vandals and Huns that overran Italy and Greece so often during the early ages of Christianity (and who with atavistic recrudescence have since attempted the domination of the world.-Ed.) Nearly all the lowest races of mankind to-day are little else than spiritual larvæ of men who will be obliged to pass through the spiritual womb of the churches to enable them to ascend into the spiritual, rational and celestial planes of being. 'Rome,' said Froude, 'is the most marvelous institution that humanity ever threw out of itself.' It gave law and perfect form to all things concerning life, and its priesthood became the spiritual nurse of humankind and decided for it what was proper, spiritual food for its spiritual infants. In doing this her priesthood and the later priesthoods of Protestantism conferred an infinite benefit on the entire human race. In the formulation of the religions of humankind Rome has done for modern civilization what the Jewish priesthood has done for that people that gave Christ to the world. The high spiritual truths taught by Jesus were most of them out of the spiritual reach of the greater portions of the mankind of his times. Jesus recognized this spiritual inability of the men of his time-even the learned men of the Jewish