The Straits Chinese Magazine, Volume 5, 19 September 1901:

Eccl 1:18 'In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.'

'The Bible has been taught during two thousand years in Europe. What has it achieved for Christendom? Take away advances made by science and commerce, what good has the Bible teaching done? You cannot get a workable moral teaching out of the contradictory lessons of the Bible. Good and bad are so blended that no two persons could agree on any important point. The conclusion we come to is that the Bible is the relic of an ancient age, and that, as an ancient classic, we may profitably read it as we read the Vedas, the laws of Manu or the Buddhist Sutras. As a history, neither the Old Testamenet nor the New is worth much; although, as the embodiment of ancient traditions, they will always be interesting.

Does the Bible teach the Chinese anything which they do not already know from their own ancient books? Yes. Only one thing! That is, that God repented Himself that He ever made man. Except this blasphemous doctrine again and again repeated, the Bible contains not one scrap of moral teaching which is new to the Chinese. Morever, in the Chinese Classics, we may read moral maxims without having to wade through pages of the coarsest indecencies which we find throughout the Old Testament.

... What good would the Bible do to a Buddhist? He already confesses he is sin all over. He is taught to abstain from all impurity and evil. He is promised the spirit of the compassionate Buddha. He is taught that hell fire will only cease when wickedness is burnt out. ... The final word we have to say is that the sooner the Bible is shelved, the better it is for the world. Let it be read by students of religion as an old classic, and let it cease to be spread broadcast as the embodiment of divine wisdom. A world laid out on the lines of the Old Testament would be a veritable hell on earth, while following the principles of Jesus, we shall soon have the extinction of the good people for only the wicked will survive.'