The Open court . Il6 THE OPEN COURT. beliefs of her old Christian faith, and her motives are not dominatedby a hope of acquiring saintship in heaven. Her belief in immor-tality is the Buddhist conviction that our deeds live,—a convictionwhich is so frequently denounced by the militant missionaries ofChristianity as the dreariness of nihilism. She is a living exampleof the religious devotion which is recorded in the history of every,but especially the Christian, faith, and her character will help us tounderstand similar personalities of the past who have almost be-come mythological to us in the
The Open court . Il6 THE OPEN COURT. beliefs of her old Christian faith, and her motives are not dominatedby a hope of acquiring saintship in heaven. Her belief in immor-tality is the Buddhist conviction that our deeds live,—a convictionwhich is so frequently denounced by the militant missionaries ofChristianity as the dreariness of nihilism. She is a living exampleof the religious devotion which is recorded in the history of every,but especially the Christian, faith, and her character will help us tounderstand similar personalities of the past who have almost be-come mythological to us in the matter-of-fact atmosphere of thepresent age. A MODERN INSTANCE OF WORLD-RENUNCIATION. 117. MISCEIvLANBOUS. HIDALGO AND MORELOS THE FORERUNNERS OF MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE. To-day hangs over the entrance of the palace of Dictator President Diaz inMexico City the most sacred church bell of all the myriad church bells of this be-churched country—the sacred bell on which the priest Hidalgo sounded the tocsinof revolution against Spain in 1810. I have been examining a marvellous collec-tion of manuscripts offered to me for three thousand dollars gold, and cheap at theprice, were it not for the too obvious evidence that they have been stolen from thesecret archives of the Government here in Mexico. One is a holograph letter fromHidalgo to Morelos, explaining the withdrawal of his army after his fight beforethe Capital, a withdrawal which proved the beginning of disasters which finallycost him his life. Hidalgo here says he did not retreat defeated ; far from it. Hisarmy of roughly a hundred thousand, mostly pure natives, say Aztecs, on captur-ing the city of Guanajuato had slaughte
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