p. 651 | The Failure of Religious Syncretism

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 30, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 41.

The Failure of Religious Syncretism

A missionary society has been formed in Germany that proposes to send missionaries to the more educated portions of the people of China, Japan, and India, not to displace their old religions, but to incorporate Christianity with Buddhism and other religions of those countries. It is spoken of as one of the novelties of modern thought, an outgrowth of broad-churchism, a putting new wine into old bottles. But this is nothing new; the world has always been at it, but always signally failed. From the necessities of the case it must ever prove a failure, yet it will probably continue to be tried.—Sel.