A Heathen Invasion

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 2, 1912

A Heathen Invasion

ONE of the outgrowths of the famed World's Fair Congress of Religion is the heathen invasion of America, and Mabel Potter Daggett, writing at length in the Hampton-Columbian Magazine, tells us that women are its chief victims. "Eve," she declares, "is eating the apple again,"—an apt putting of the situation. "Yoga," she says, "that Eastern philosophy the emblem of which is the coiled serpent, is being widely disseminated here, and before a charm that seemingly they can not resist thousands of converts are yielding to the temptation to embrace its teachings of strange mysteries." The Vedanta Society claims more than five thousand women sympathizers in New York alone. San Francisco has its Hindu temple, Los Angeles its Krishna temple, Chicago and Massachusetts their Zoroastrian; and in Chicago also are the disciples of Abdul Baha, the Mohammedan cult which are building a place of worship.

It is not only the Vedanta Society which is weaving its spell over thousands, but the sun-worship, under the name of Zoroastrianism, is exerting the same sort of influence. But the simple fact is that all these so-called Christian people who are deceived by the Eastern philosophies, have never known Christianity.