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The Herald he was called Sakya-Muni or the monk of the Sakyas. The word the root Bud, to R nterm l aa M cono-rlmaa m a tte r S eptem ber#. 190#. Buddha—from n th e poet office a t M onm outh. O regon, ur.tler th e know—is generic. When one be rV Act of March 3. 1X79. came enlightened, he was said to KICHAKD B. SWENSON have attained to Fuddhahood. E d ito r & P u b lis h e r St. Hilary, the bishop of of Poit GOOD MONMOUTH. OREGON iers says of Gautama, or Buddha as IS SU E D E V E R Y F R ID A Y . FURNITUREI he afterwards became known: “ Ex I TV \ cept Christ alone, there is not. IS P A I FRIDAY, AUGUST 11. 1922 among the founders of religions, a Y O U R DUTY S u b s c r ip tio n R a te s figure purer or more touching than TO Y O U R One year • $2,00 f at of Buddha. His constant hero HOME ism equals his conviction; he is a Six months - • $1.00 finished model of all the virtues Three months - • 75 cts that he preaches; his self-denial, his charity, his unalterable sweet 301 Monmouth’* largest and most complete Confectionery and Book Store ness, seem not to fail for a mo ment” . There is one thing that Buddhism No house furnishings deserve more of can say that no other faith can, in 2325HSHS25ZSLL‘-~d aESLISESEStS 25H 5252iidSH SE5H 52S25i5(iS2S2SH 5Z5252525ES|£ your thoughtful attention than the bed In cluding Christianity, it is the only which you rest after each day's crowded religion that did not seek to propo- hoc hours of work And the dressers and chif ß gate itself by force or persecution, foniers— also outstanding features of the even when it had the power. The Liability and Surety Bonds bed room — present many opportunities for pages of ecclesiastical history are showing the good taste of the home owner. dved red with the blood of those For the kind you wish come here. Our line is who dared to think for themselves, hut whatever else may be said about Rich i n Style Monmouth Oregon or against Buddhism, that at least, By Rev. L. V. Lewis We have a large assortment of all bed iS£SH5?j25ZS2SZS25HS7i525H5E5H5HSZ52in’S2SZS25H52S252S2SH5Zii cannot he charged against at. And The old'saying, “Criticism bigins with an enthusiasm that knew no room furniture in the modern styles and where wisdom ends’’, is as true to bounds the disciples of Gautama finishes There Is no lack of attention either life today as it was in the days of propagated the faith with a self- to the details so often neglected that make its utterance. The one who will abnegation and success that even for comfort and convenience. Prices, as heap contempt and ridicule upon the history of Christendom cannot usual, make these offerings unusual in value. 4 Buddhism is always the one who surpass. knows absolutely nothing about its In India, in the sixth century be teachings. fore Christ, the son of a king, We do not mean to say that Bud ever, though the king was only the dhism can be given a place by the Rajah of a petty state or a zemin side of Christianity, but Buddhism dar, had “all the world at his feet” . J. EL W inegar, Proprietor as itoriginally existed not only met But, in spite of this, in spite of the needs of the times, but was the a happy married life blessed with nearest approach to an ideal that the birth of a son, Gautama was that early age had. not satisfied. Something was lack The founder of Buddhism lived ing. Every picture of old age or and died a Hindu. There was no disease or of death made him ask w ill repair your au tom ob ile thought of founding a new faith, the question—What is the meaning and gu aran tee th e job. and he only claimed to be a correct of this apparently endless, transi W e b a ke e v e r y th in g w e sell. exponent of the spirit of the ancient tory, suffering life? The only per Vedic faith. Just as there were son who seemed to him superior to Webber’s Garage many reformers before the Great the influences of time and the body Reformation in Europe so there w'as the ascetic. And then the uni were many sages in India who were versally accepted belief in transmi M O NM O UTH TRANSFER dissatisfied with the Brahmunical gration produced in the thoughtful T ransferring by system of worship. But in Gau a positive loathing of existance. auto truck and by tama (the Buddha) all these pre This in his own words, “added to B a k ery and Tea Shop team , w ith in th e vious voices blended. He was the the weary weight of all this unin c ity or ou t of to w n . Hindu Luther. His noble life and telligible world” . Surely there L eave o rd e rs a t G arag a commanding personality fused into must be some explanation of the Call Phone 2003 living unity, forces that had been Three doors east of post office. Light Lunch Served secret of life. At the age of 29 he long gathering, and originated a tore himself away from wealth, COFFIN & EG LES TO N T2SE5raSHSHSi52S2S£52SHSHSHii2<iHSHSESSSHSiiSHSHSHSHSZSHSt!SHSHSHSH5ESi5HSH' movement that swept over India power, home, parents, wife and and very nearly submerged the child; exchanged his garnrents with ordinances of the ancient religion. a beggar and went as a penniless But modern Buddhism bears very student from one celebrated teacher little resemblance to the faith as to another, learning from them all established and taught by Gautama. the Brahmanism could teach him. A re the Beit Recom m endation of It is the worse jungle of contra B ran, Mill Run and Corn Finding notning but a hollow dictory principles that has ever shell he plunged into the jungle, P o u ltr y S u p p lie s B O N E, S H E L L an d G R I T born the name of a religion. accompanied by five disciples, de Passing from apparent atheism termined to test the principle of and materialism to theism, polythe Brahmanism that the soul can be T til« I n s titu tio n o tte r* a th o r o u g h , p ra c tic a l, a n d s ta n d a r d e d u c a tio n at a c o a t w ith in re a c h o f th e h ig h s c h o o l g ra d u a te . ism and spiritualism; from one come independent of the body and .SSESZSHSESESHSESHSZSHSHSHSHSESHSSSHSSSZSESHS^SHSESHSaSESHSasaSZSESZSET angle it is mere pessimism; anoth obtain superhuman power, and final It offer* training for collegiate degree* in: D Agriculture Mine* er, pure philanthrophy; another, ly salvation, through asceticism. In Commerce Pharmacy high morality; another, simple jn For six years Gautama tried, as Engineering and Mechanical Arts Vocational Education ft Forestry Chemical Engineering demonology, and from another, a no other man has ever tried, to ob ft Home Economics Military Science and Tactics mere confused mixture of supersti tain liberation by this method. But 5! It offers training also in: The school of Music, Physical Edu tions, necromancy, witchcraft, idol like Paul and Luther he found the in cation, Industrial Journalism. C atry and fetishism way unsatisfactory and but a blind CJ F a ll T e rm O per.s S e p te m b e r 18 Modern Buddhism cannot be ex trail. At last, when his penances ». For circulars of informatioitand illustrated booklet write to plained so we will pass immediately were extorting the admiration of 10 the founder and Buddhism as it all who heard ofj them, in sheer ,3z5HSa5HS2Sa525HScL5IlS7IS2SaSSS25HEZSZ5H5ES2S2S2S2SZSSS2SES2S2S2SZSZSZSS' T h e R egistrar, O regon A g ricultural College, oirginally existed. disgust he ceased his efforts and Corvallis, O regon Siddharta was the son of the began to take food like other men. Rajah of Kapilavastu, a town sit Was there no w ay of p< s e or sal uated between the holy city of Ben vation? rhe thought of returning ares and the^Himalaya mountains. h >me presented itself. Was it W o o d S a w in g per cord J . O. M A T T H IS The family name was Gautama and right to neg'ect the ordinary round Hard wood. twice cut, 90c Physician and Surgeon the tribe was the Sakyas. Hence, of social ard religious exercises for " 3 times in two $1.15 P h o n r 673 House 867W when Siddharta became an ascetic a will-o’-the-wisp? 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