“Hail to thee, say all creatures; ... 
   The gods adore thy majesty,
   The spirits thou has made exalt thee,
   Rejoicing before the feet of their begetter. 
   They cry out welcome to thee,
   Father of the fathers of all the gods,
   Who raises the heavens, who fixes the earth;
   We worship thy spirit who alone hast made us,
   We whom thou hast made thank thee that thou hast given us birth,
   We give to thee praises for thy mercy toward us.”]

[Footnote 153:  Modern Atheism, p. 13.]

[Footnote 154:  Chips from a German Workshop, vol. ii., pp. 146, 147.]

[Footnote 155:  Science of Religion, Lecture III., p. 57.]

[Footnote 156:  Acts xvii. 28.]

[Footnote 157:  Prescott’s Conquest of Mexico.]

[Footnote 158:  Reville in his Hibbert Lectures on Mexican and Peruvian religions asserts that polytheism existed from the beginning, but our contention is that One God was supreme and created the sun.]

[Footnote 159:  De Pressense:  The Ancient World and Christianity.]

[Footnote 160:  Bournouf found the Tantras so obscene that he refused to translate them.]

[Footnote 161:  T. Rhys Davids:  Buddhism, p. 208.]

[Footnote 162:  Report of Missionary Conference, vol. i, p. 70.]

[Footnote 163:  Buddhism, in the Britannica.]

[Footnote 164:  Rev. S.G.  Wright, long a missionary among the American Indians, says:  “During the forty-six years in which I have been laboring among the Ojibway Indians, I have been more and more impressed with the evidence, showing itself in their language, that at some former time they have been in possession of much higher ideas of God’s attributes, and of what constitutes true happiness, immortality, and virtue, as well as of the nature of the Devil and his influence in the world, than those which they now possess.  The thing which early in our experience surprised us, and which has not ceased to impress us, is, that, with their present low conceptions of spiritual things, they could have chosen so lofty and spiritual a word for the Deity.  The only satisfactory explanation seems to be that, at an early period of their history, they had higher and more correct ideas concerning God than those which they now possess, and that these have become, as the geologists would say, fossilized in their forms of speech, and so preserved.”—­Bibliotheca Sacra, October, 1889.]

[Footnote 165:  Modern Atheism, p. 10.]

[Footnote 166:  I. Kings, xiv., and II.  Kings, xxiii.]

LECTURE VIII.

INDIRECT TRIBUTES OF HEATHEN SYSTEMS TO THE DOCTRINES OF THE BIBLE