Chapters From The Bible Of The Ages

Text extracted from opening pages of book: CHAPTERS BIBLE. OF THE AGES. COMPILED AND EDITED BY GILES B. STEBBINS, DETROIT, MICHIGAN. ** Slowly the Bible of the race is wrxc, Each age, each kindred adds a verse to it, Texts of despair or hope, of joy or moan. While swings the sea, while mists the mountains shroud. While thunder's surges burst on clifla of cloud, Still at the prophets' feet the nations sit, J. R. LOWBLU *' We have hut part of our Holy Bible. The time will come when, as in the Middle Ages, all pious books shall be called Scrijtura Sacra > Sacred Scriptures. T. W. HIGGINSON. SIXTH BDI1ION, DETROIT: TOORNDIO NOURSE, PUBLISHER, 1884 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, BY GILES B. STEBBINS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington* TO THE GROWING MULTITUDE OF THOUGHTFUL MEN AND WOMEN, WHO BELIEVE THAT THE WORD OF GOD IS NOT BOUND* BV ANY LIMITATIONS OF BOOK, OR RACE, OR TIME, OR RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS, FKOM THE GOSPELS AND INSPIRATIONS OF MANY CENTURIES, AND OF DIFFERENT PEOPLES, IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. INDEX. CHAPTER I. HINDOSTAN, BRAHMINISM, & C. PACK Hymns from Rig Veda, .. ...... 9 Hymns from Athara Veda, 17 Hymns from Sama Veda, 17 Vedas, 19 Bhagvat Geeta. Extracts, . ., . . . . . 22 Code of Menu, 27 The Brahmo-Somaj, ......... 31 CHAPTER II. BUDDHISM. Five Buddhist Commandments, etc., ..., .* 35 Gathas or Hymns, . 39 Dhammapada, or Path of Virtue, by Buddha. Extracts, ., 40 A Modern Buddhist Views of Chao Phya Thipakon, ... 48 CHAPTER HI, CHINA. Confucius and Mencius. Extracts, .*.., . 51 CHAPTER IV. PERSIA. Zoroaster, Zend Avesta, etc, , # . 63 Modem Parsee Catechism, 70 CHAPTER V, EGYPT. The Divine Pymander. Extracts, .*., , 725Inscriptions on Egyptian Tombs, ...... 75 Amun to Thotmes, * 76 CHAPTER VI, HEBREW, Old Testament - Isaiah, David, 78 Talmudical and Rabbinical Writings, 80 Fhilo Judaeus. Of those who offer Sacrifice, etc., * 83 Modern Judaism, Rabbis Wise, Lilienthal, etc., 89 2 INDEX. CHAPTER VII. GREECE. AGB Orpheus, Pythagoras, Cleanthes, Aristotle, . 97 Plato. Wisdom and Self-Knowledge, etc., zoo CHAPTER VIII. ROME. Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca. Extracts, * liz CHAPTER IX NEW TESTAMENT, Jesus and Paul, . 124, CHAPTER 3L-AL KORAN.' Mohammed, * 127 CHAPTER XLEUROPE. Scandinavian Eddas, 130 Justin Martyr, St. Augustine, Basil, Arndt, Thomas A 1 Kcrapis, 132 Luther, Zschokke, Jean Paul, Goethe, Humboldt, etc., . . . 137, Renan. Jesus of Nazareth, .., ., . 152 Swedenborg, The Spiritual Man Real, 156, CHAPTER XII.-GREAT BRITAIN. Taliesin. Questions, 158 Lord Bacon. Of Adversity, etc., *..; 159. John Milton. Plea for Free Thought, 161 Philip Sidney. Arcadia, ' 163 William Penn, No Cross, no Crown, etc., .... 164, Robert Barclay. Address to King Charles II, ... 173 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. LeigK Hunt, 183 Herbert Spencer, Sydney Smith, Ruskin, Spurgeon, Dickons, John Robertson, ., ....., , . 191 The Future that awaits us. Catharine Crowe, .... 195 Reign of Law. Dukejpf Argylc, 198 Sayings and Foretellings, etc.-rF. W. Newman, . . ajpc. The Study of Physics, John Tyndall, .*, , , 2