[Footnote 138:  The Aryan Witness, passim.]

[Footnote 139:  Aristotle said, “God, though He is one, has many names, because He is called according to the states into which He always enters anew.”]

[Footnote 140:  The Religions of China, p. 16.]

[Footnote 141:  The Religions of China, p. 49.]

[Footnote 142:  “In the year 1600 the Emperor of China declared in an edict that the Chinese should adore, not the material heavens, but the Master of heaven.”—­Cardinal Gibbons:  Our Christian Heritage.]

[Footnote 143:  Martin:  The Chinese, p. 106.]

[Footnote 144:  It has been related by Rev. Hudson Taylor that the fishermen of the Fukien Province, when a storm arises, pray to the goddess of the sea; but when that does not avail they throw all the idols aside and pray to the “Great-grandfather in Heaven.”  Father is a great conception to the Chinese mind.  Great-grandfather is higher still, and stands to them for the Supreme.]

[Footnote 145:  Science of Religion, p. 86.]

[Footnote 146:  The Chinese, p. 99.]

[Footnote 147:  Other writers contend that he was probably contemporaneous with Abraham.  Still others think Zoroaster a general name for great prophets.  Darmestetter inclines to this view.]

[Footnote 148:  Chips from a German Workshop.]

[Footnote 149:  Archbishop Vaughn, of Sydney, emphatically declares that the aborigines of Australia believe in a Supreme Being.]

[Footnote 150:  Rev. Mr. Johnson, of Lagos, has expressed a belief that the pagan tribes of West Africa were monotheists before the incursion of the Mohammedans.  Rev. Alfred Marling, of Gaboon, bears the same testimony of the Fans.]

[Footnote 151:  Rev. A.C.  Thompson, D.D. The Moravians.

One of the early converts from among the Ojibwas, said to the missionary, Rev. S.G.  Wright:  “A great deal of your preaching I readily understand, especially what you say about our real characters.  We Indians all know that it is wrong to lie, to steal, to be dishonest, to slander, to be covetous, and we always know that the Great Spirit hates all these things.  All this we knew before we ever saw the white man.  I knew these things when I was a little boy.  We did not, however, know the way of pardon for these sins.  In our religion there is nothing said by the wise men about pardon.  We knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ as a Saviour.”]

[Footnote 152:  Professor Tiele, of Leyden, asserts that “It is altogether erroneous to regard the Egyptian religion as the polytheistic degeneration of a prehistoric monotheism.  It was polytheistic from the beginning.”  But on one of the oldest of Egyptian monuments is found this hymn, which is quoted by Cardinal Gibbons in Our Christian Inheritance: