The New Chinese God

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 8, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 48.

The New Chinese God.

On the eighth day of the second month it was decreed in China that Confucius should be regarded as deified, and worshiped throughout the empire. For one day all schools were closed. This adds another idol to the great China pantheon. Sacrifices offered to Confucius are cows, sheep, and pigs, offered at the shrine of the new god, and then eaten by the worshipers. Heretofore Confucius has simply been considered a great moral philosopher; hereafter Confucianism will be, as The Homiletic Review points out, “an idolatrous cult.”