CONFUCIANISM.
BOWING TO IMAGE IN SYDNEY SCHOOL. AN OBEISANCE .TO LOGIC, NOT RELIGION. Br Teleerftßh—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, May 13. A member of the committee of the Chinese school hero declares that the statements recently made at the Presbyterian Assombly—to the effect that the new Chinose tcachor, Loo Yet, compels pupils to bow down to an image of Confucius, and that an objecting Christian Chinese Minister is in danger of assassination —are nothing less than ""a string of groundless charges. The committee-man publishes a copy of a letter that was forwarded to the. Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly on March 26, embodying the findings of a committee of prominent Chinese, who had examined into the working of the school and the charges brought by Mr. Young x Wai, the Chinese Minister reforred to. The committee found that the children, in paying an obeisance to an imago of Confucius, wore not doing so to an idol, but to -the founder of Chinese logic. The religious beliefs of the children were in no way prejudiced by the teacher, and idolatrous worship was absolutely forbidden. It is added that all that the committee desires .and asks is a simple apology from Mr. Young Wai. This is not forthcoming.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 817, 14 May 1910, Page 5
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204CONFUCIANISM. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 817, 14 May 1910, Page 5
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