Religious Unity and Buddhist Missions
JUSTICE BREWER, of the United States Supreme Court, in a recent Washington lecture on “The Twentieth Century from Another View,” said, among other things: “The present century has been one of denominational rivalry and strife, but the next century will be one of Christian unity. The ancient enemies, Catholicism and Protestantism, are drawing closer together.” Soon they will be so close together as to literally fulfill the prediction made by the Spirit of Prophecy over fifteen years ago, that the time would come “when Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power.” MISSIONARIES of real Buddhism are at present establishing missions in this country “for the conversion of Americans to the faith of Buddha,” with headquarters in San Francisco. They have already established missions in Hawaii, Malaysia, China, and Corea. In view of all this, the most prominent religious weekly in the country says that “we can not regard Buddhists as merely passive religionists.”