то

THE GROWING

MULTITUDE

OF THOUGHTFUL MEN AND WOMEN,

WHO BELIEVE THAT "THE WORD OF GOD IS NOT BOUND" BY
ANY LIMITATIONS OF BOOK, OR RACE, OR TIME,
OR RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS,

THIS COMPILATION,

FROM THE TEACHINGS AND INSPIRATIONS OF MANY CENTURIES,

AND OF DIFFERENT PEOPLES,

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

INDEX.

CHAPTER I.-HINDOSTAN BRAHMINISM.

Hymns from Rig Veda,

Hymns from Atharva Veda,

Hymns from Sama Veda,

Vedas,

Bhagvat Geeta.—Extracts,

Code of Menu,

The Brahmo-Somaj,

CHAPTER II.-BUDDHISM.

Five Buddhist Commandments, etc.,

Gathas or Hymns,

Dhammapada, or Path of Virtue, by Buddha.—Extracts,

A Modern Buddhist.-Views of Chao Phya Thipakon,

CHAPTER IV.--PERSIA.

Zoroaster, Zend Avesta, etc.,

Modern Parsee Catechism,

63

70

Old Testament-Isaiah, David,

Talmudical and Rabbinical Writings,

Philo Judaeus. Of those who offer Sacrifice, etc.,

Modern Judaism.-Rabbis Wise, Lilienthal, etc.,

78

80

83

89

Justin Martyr, St. Augustine, Basil, Arndt, Thomas A. Kempis,

Luther, Zschokke, Jean Paul, Goethe, Humboldt, etc.,

132

137

Henry More, Adam Clarke, Addison, J. Wesley, Mary Fletcher,

Coleridge, Carlyle,

174

What Religious Teachers should do.--Frances Power Cobbe,

180

The Religion of the Heart.-Leigh Hunt,

183

Herbert Spencer, Sydney Smith, Ruskin, Spurgeon, Dickens, John

Human Interest in History.--Moral Elements.-Froude,

21I

The Church of the Future.-E. N. Dennys,

God's Voice nearer than the Book.-Colenso,

Toleration, and Study of the Bible.-F. Temple,

CHAPTER XIII. SYMPATHY OF RELIGIONS.

The Sympathy of Religions-Extracts.-T. W. Higginson,

CHAPTER XIV.-AMERICA.

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215

218

218

221

Man's Demands, God's Commands, etc.-H. C. Wright,

Free Thought and Free Speech.-W. L. Garrison,

The Reformer.-J. G. Whittier,

Forgiveness and Love.-Lydia M. Child,

Spiritual Christianity.-T. Starr King,

266

Free Religion and a Free State.-S. Johnson,

269

Culture Demanded by Modern Life, etc.-E. L. Youmans,

272

God's Command to Impart Truth.-B. Hallowell,

290

Immortality in the Light of Science.--W. J. Potter,

Disappointment--A Teacher in God's School, etc.-T. L. Cuyler, .