XXII. p. 351.-"Just as, according to the Brahminica theory, each of the Indian sacred rivers loses in time its sanctity, so India itself is gradually losing every thing which is characteristic of it. I may illustrate the completeness of the transformation which is proceeding by repeating what I have learned, on excellent authority, to be the opinion of the best native scholars: that in fifty years all knowledge of Sanscrit will have departed from India, or, if kept alive, will be kept alive by the reäctive influence of Germany and England."-[Sir H. S. Maine: "Village Communities"; London ed., 1871: pp. 24-5. Yet this is the language which that all-accomplished scholar, Sir William Jones, described as "more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either."—[Works : Vol. 3: p. 34. XXIII. p. 352.-"Mankind, moving solemnly on its appointed road, from age to age, passes by its imperfect teachers, guided by their light, blessed by their toil, and sprinkled with their blood. But Truth, like her God, is before and above us forever. So we pass by the lamps of the street, with wonder at their light, though but a smoky glare; they seem to change places, and burn dim in the distance as we go on; at last the solid walls of darkness shut them in. But high over our heads are the unsullied stars, which never change their place, nor dim their eye. So the truths of the Scriptures will teach forever, though the record perish, and its authors be unknown. They came from God, through the soul of man."-[Theodore Parker: "Discourse of Relig ion"; Boston ed., 1842 : p. 376. "The grand objects of the physical universe, discernible from every latitude, look in at the understanding of all nations, and secure the unity of Science. And the glorious persons of human history, imperishable from the traditions of every civilized people, keeping their sublime glance upon the Conscience of ages, create the unity of Faith. And if it hath pleased God the Creator to fit up one system with one Sun, to make the daylight of several worlds: so may it fitly have pleased God the Revealer to kindle amid the ecliptic of history One Divine Soul, to glorify whatever lies within the great year of his moral Providence, and represent the Father of Lights. The exhibition of Christ as his Moral Image has maintained in the souls of men a common spiritual type, to correct the aberrations of their individuality, to unite the humblest and the highest, to merge all minds into one family, and that the family of God."-[James Martineau: "Miscellanies" Boston ed., 1852: p. 280. XXIV. FINIS.-The clearest prophetic judgment of the Jewish ·Church, in the days which heard the first proclamation of Christianity, could have been expressed by no other so well and so wisely as by Ga. maliel:-"His learning was so eminent, and his character so revered, that he is one of the seven who alone among Jewish doctors have been honored with the title of 'Rabban.' As Aquinas, among the schoolmen, was called Doctor Angelicus, and Bonaventura Doctor Seraphicus, vo Gamaliel was called the 'Beauty of the Law'; and it is a saying of the Talmud, that 'since Rabban Gamaliel died, the glory of the Law has ceased.'. . He lived and died a Jew; and a well-known prayer against Christian heretics was composed or sanctioned by him. . . Another of his pupils, Onkelos, the author of the celebrated Targum, raised to him such a funeral pile of rich materials as had never before been known, except at the burial of a king."-[Conybeare and Howson ⚫ "Life and Epistles of St. Paul"; Vol. I.: pp. 61-63. The rich funeral pile was speedily dispersed into wind-strewed ashes. The son and successor of Gamaliel perished amid the destruction of Jerusalem. The principal hold which the father has had on the memory of the world has been through his early relation as Teacher to that young Paul whom he had to count afterward among the 'apostates,' concerning whom he had prayed that for them there might be "no hope." But he spoke certain words, on one occasion, to which the writings of those whom he despised have given an earthly immortality: on which all the succeeding centuries have made their steady and mighty comment: to which the expanding Christendom of to-day presents its answer: which unbelief may well thoughtfully ponder: and which the humblest Christian disciple may joyfully accept, as he expects the coming ages: "Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space; and said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men. For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hun. dred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought. After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed. And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God"-["The Acts of the Apostles"; V.: 34-39. INDEX. ABBOTT, on the date of the fourth Gospel, [ AMMIANUS Marcellinus; his Roman history quoted, 442, 503, 549, 605. AMPHICTYCNIC Assembly, 180; its origin ANCIENT religions, their historical interest, ANNICERIS ransoms Plato from slavery, ANSELM, St., 236. ANTAGONISTS of Christianity, 8; Parker ANTHROPOS, 37. Etymology of the word, AGRARIAN Law, the basis of the Hebrew ANTIGONE, 288. AGRIPPINA, 579. AGUESSEAU, Chancellor d'; and the droit ALEXANDER the Great, his career, 342, 343; ALEXANDER III. condemns slavery and ALEXANDER, Mrs. C. F., verses on the Fall ALPHEUS of Mitylene, quoted, 289. 515. AMBROSE, St., his chants, 131; Hawkins 117, 119, 153. ANTINOUS, 256. Obelisk in honor of, 574. ANTONINUS. See Marcus Aurelius. ANTONINUS Pius, 142. APICIUS, gluttony of, 254. See GLUTTONY. APOSTOLICAL CONSTITUTIONS, 465, 489, ARBITRATION, International; schemes of ARCADIUS, 157. ARETINO, his service to modern music, 446. ARGUMENT and Dogma, 15; Newman ARISTIPPUS, Plutarch quoted, 560. ARISTOTLE, 49, 50, 74, 91, 140, 148, 155, Mo- ARRIA, Pliny's mention of her, 472. ASPASIA, oration ascribed to her, 468. ASTROLOGY, Cicero referred to, 295. ATHEISM and Buddhism, 128; notes, Dunck- FIDELITY. ATHENAEUS, 38, 436. His Deipnosophistæ 457. ATOSSA, 502. AUGURIES, portents and omens, 294-296; AUGUSTA, 602. AUGUSTINE, Saint, on Christ, 304. His On Seneca, 253, quoted, 568. On the AUGUSTUS, deification of, 43; notes, Sue BACON on the Christian Faith, his De Aug- BAJAZET, his slaughter of captives, 176; BARNABAS, Epistle of, quoted, 464. BATTLE. See WAR. BAUER on the fourth Gospel, 361. His BAYLE on the Gospel, 615. |