[Footnote 213:  Douglass, Confucianism and Taouism.]

[Footnote 214:  The apologists of Buddhism have made much of the story of a distressed young mother who came to the “Master” bearing in her arms the dead body of her first-born—­hoping for some comfort or help.  He bade her bring him some mustard seed found in a home where no child had died.  After a wearisome but vain search he only reminded her of the universality of death.  No hope of a future life and a glad recovery of the lost was given.  As an illustration of Buddhism the example is a good one.]

[Footnote 215:  “Men wanted a Father in heaven, who should take account of their efforts and assure them a recompense.  Men wanted a future of righteousness, in which the earth should belong to the feeble and the poor; they wanted the assurance that human suffering is not all loss, but that beyond this sad horizon, dimmed by tears, are happy plains where sorrow shall one day find its consolation.”—­Renan, Hibbert Lectures, p. 42.]

[Footnote 216:  See report of Missionary Conference, London, 1888, vol. i., p. 70.]

[Footnote 217:  St. Paul and Protestantism, p. 79, quoted by Bishop Carpenter.]

[Footnote 218:  It is hardly necessary to remind the reader of the well-known tribute which Napoleon, in his conversations with his friends on the island of St. Helena, paid to the transcendent personality of Christ.  He drew a graphic contrast between the so-called glory which had been won by great conquerors like Alexander, Caesar, and himself, and that mysterious and all-mastering power which in all lands and all ages continues to attach itself to the person, the name, the memory of Christ, for whom, after eighteen centuries of time, millions of men would sacrifice their lives.]

[Footnote 219:  Augustine appears to have been greatly moved by the life as well as by the writings of Paul.  In an account given of his conversion to his friend Romanianus, he says, “So then stumbling, hurrying, hesitating, I seized the apostle Paul, ‘for never,’ said I, ’could they have wrought such things, or lived as it is plain they did live, if their writings and arguments were opposed to this so high a good.’”—­Confessions, Bk. vii., xxi., note.]

[Footnote 220:  Genesis, xvii. 1.]

[Footnote 221:  The doctrine of human merit-making was carried to such an extreme under the Brahmanical system that the gods became afraid of its power.  They sometimes found it necessary to send apsaras (nymphs), wives of genii, to tempt the most holy ascetics, lest their austerities and their merit should proceed too far.—­See Article Brahmanism, in the Britannica.]

[Footnote 222:  Mueller, Chips from a German Workshop, vol. i., p. 40.]

[Footnote 223:  De Nat.  Deorum, iii., 36.]

[Footnote 224:  Chips from a German Workshop, p. 304.]

[Footnote 225:  See Murdock’s Vedic Religion, p. 57.]