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"Granting Him, therefore, these attributes (and it is both blasphemous and unreasonable to DENY HIM THOSE VIRTUES WHICH DISTINGUISH THE BEST OF MEN), it is easily understood how He, the All-Fair Beneficent Ruler of the Central Sphere, perceiving the long distance to which the Earth was propelled, like a ball flung too far out, fro, saw also that the creatures He had e completely out, and with it all reave to their , as they did, and not possessing sufficient energy to seek, electric attraction In brief, this Earth and God's World were like America and Europe before the Atlantic Cable was laid Now the oodwill flash under the waves, heedless of the storms So also God's Cable is laid between us and His Heaven in the person of Christ
"For ages (always rees are with God a moment) the idea of WORSHIP was in the mind of man With this idea cae has fro up to a Being greater than Hi for some fault or loss in himself which he is aware of, yet cannot explain This double instinct--worship and propitiation--is the key-note of all the creeds of the world, and ht of the cable to be hereafter laid--a lightning-thought which He instilled into the huraph-wire fro it across a continent
"All religions, as known to us, are mere types of Christianity It is a notable fact that some of the oldest and most learned races in the world, such as the Armenians and Chaldeans, were the first to be convinced of the truth of Christ's visitation Buddhism, of which there are so ; only it lacks the supernatural elehty, as any wise and ascetic ht do to-day The death and resurrection of Christ idely different Anyone can be a Buddha again; anyone can NOT be a Christ That there are stated to be more followers of Buddhism than of Christianity is no proof of any efficacy in the former or lack of power in the latter Buddhists help to swell that very large class of persons who prefer a flattering picture to a plain original; or who, sheep-like by nature, finding theether in one meadow, are too lazy, as well as too indifferent, to seek pastures fresher and fairer