charge of atheism directed against the
keenest thinkers of antiquity and the greatest of its moral
reformers. But what was personal and incidental in the past,
depending largely upon the genius and inspiration of seers and
leaders, has now become a social movement, as wide as science_.

JAMES T. SHOTWELL.

_The drift from God is a movement of events, a propulsion of vital
experience, not a parade of words to be diverted by other words_.

MAX CARL OTTO.

In the Babylonian and Assyrian mythologies we have the chief deities as
Ishtar, Tammuz, Baal, and Astarte. In the Phrygian religion we have the
Goddess Cybele and her husband Attis. Among the Greeks we have the
Goddess Aphrodite and the God Adonis. The Persians had their Mithra.
Adonis and Attis flourished in Syria. In the Egyptian religion was found
the Goddess Isis and the God Osiris. The Semites have their Jehovah, the
Mohammedans their Allah, and the Christians the Goddess Mary, the God
the Father, and a son Jesus.

Christianity has divided itself into Catholicism and Protestantism; and
when Protestantism gave the right of interpretation of the Bible to each
individual, there were evolved such forms of Protestantism as Christian
Science, Holy Rollerism, Seventh Day Adventism, Swedenborgianism, and
the cults of the Doukhobors, the Shakers, the Mennonites, the Dunkards
and the Salvation Army.

In the early days of the Church were seen the wrangling of sects, the
incomprehensible jargon of Arians, Nestorians, Eutychians, Monotheists,
Monophysites, Mariolatrists, etc. Today we behold the incomprehensible
jargon of the first-mentioned sects.

Christ, born of an immaculate virgin, died for mankind, arose from the
dead, and ascended into Heaven.

Buddha, who lived over 500 years before Jesus, was born of the Virgin
Maya, which is the same as Mary. Maya conceived by the Holy Ghost, and
thus Buddha was of the nature of God and man combined. Buddha was born
on December 25, his birth was announced in the heavens by a star, and
angels sang. He stood upon his feet and spoke at the moment of his
birth; at five months of age he sat unsupported in the air; and at the
moment of his conversion he was attacked by a legion of demons. He was
visited by wise men, he was baptized, transfigured, performed miracles,
rose from the dead, and on his ascension through the air to heaven, he
left his footprint on a mountain in Ceylon.

The Hindu