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0208 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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shown before dispensation of medicine. They repre-
sent, crudely enough, certain stirring scenes related
in the Bible. The sahib, who knows the secrets of
the bottles, tells the wondering yokel that here,
wearing a purple or green robe, is God on earth,
here are His chosen friends, here, in sickly yellow, a
man new-raised from the dead. He tells them that
God on earth gave rules for living, the same in gen-
eral terms which they have heard from Buddha;
some particulars, and many European interpreta-
tions, constitute the bill of differences. Chiefly this
is told: If you believe that the God on earth, of
whom the sahibs now speak, is the true and only
such manifestation; then, living as padre sahibs
live, you may inherit with them a glorious life eter-
nal. If you do not, the alternative is not pleasant.
I do not know how much it is emphasised.
As result of all this,—the medicine, the chromo,
the good sahib, son of a powerful people,—some
humble soul does now and then declare that he be-
lieves the God of the sahib and of the bottles to be
a good spirit for worship, and he is declared a Christ-
ian. No quibbling here about higher criticism, no
paltry inquiries into the authenticity of the Gospels,
no question of homoosian and homoiosian; no tear-
ing to pieces of the miracles, no fright as to the
concordance between Jew-made prophecies and
Jew-rejected fulfilments. The sahib's medicine is
good, the sahib's chromo is brilliant, the sahib's
words are kind—then the sahib's God may safely
be acknowledged. Poor, dull brain, poor tired
heart! Rome and the Bishop of Westminster are
as far away from him as is the seventh pleiad, but