It is a very significant fact that most of the Brahmo Somajes of India have adopted Jesus Christ as the greatest of the world’s prophets.  Chunder Sen sometimes spoke of him as a devout Christian would speak.  The Arya Somaj would not own His name, but it has graced its Hindu creed with many of His essential doctrines.  Quite recently a new organ of the Brahmo Somaj, published at Hyderabad, has announced as its leading object, “to harmonize pure Hinduism and pure Christianity, with Christ as the chief corner-stone.”  In the exact words of this paper, called The Harmony, its aim is “to preach Christ as the eternal Son of God, as the Logos in all prophets and saints before and after the incarnation, as the incarnate, perfect righteousness by whose obedience man is made righteous....  Christ is the reconciliation of man with man, and of all men with God, the harmony of humanity with humanity, and of all humanity with Divinity.”  This prospectus condemns the average Christianity of foreigners in India—­the over-reaching, “beef-eating, beer-drinking” Anglo-Saxon type, “which despises the Hindu Scriptures and yet belies its own;” but it exalts the spotless and exalted Christ and builds all the hopes of humanity upon Him.  How will the mere philosopher explain this wonderful power of personality over men of all races, if it be not Divine?

But perhaps the most remarkable tribute to the transcendent character of Christ is seen in the fact that all sects of religionists, the most fanatical and irrational, seem to claim Him as in some sense their own.  Mormonism, even when plunging into the lowest depths of degradation, has always claimed to rest on the redemption of Jesus Christ.  Mohammedanism—­even the Koran itself—­has always acknowledged Christ as the only sinless prophet.  All the others, from Adam to Mohammed, stand convicted of heinous offences, and they will not reappear on earth; while He who knew no sin shall, according to Mohammedan prophecy, yet come again to judge the earth.  The worshippers of Krishna, some of whom are found among us in this land, claim Christ as one of the true avatars of Vishnu, and heartily commend His character and His teachings.  Our western Buddhists are just now emphasizing the idea that Christ was the sacred Buddha of Palestine, that he studied and taught “the eight-fold path,” became an arahat, and attained Nirvana, and that the Christian Church has only misrepresented His transcendent wisdom and purity.  The ablest tract on Theosophy that I have yet seen is entitled “Theosophy the Religion of Jesus.”

How marvellous is all this—­that Theosophists, Aryas, Brahmos, Buddhists, Moslems, though they hate Christianity and fight it to the death—­still bow before the mild sceptre of Christ.  As the central light of the diamond shines alike through every facet and angle, so His doctrine and character are claimed as the glory of every creed.  Many types of heathen faiths honor Him, and many schools