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358. ABOUND THE WORLD.
The Emperior Hadrian, writing to Serrianus, while visiting
Alexandria, and referring to the religion of the old
Egyptians, assures us that —
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' The worshipers of Serapis are also Christians ; for I find that the
priests devoted to him call themselves the bishops of Christ."
Clemens Alexandrinus,. so eminent in the early Church,
admitted that —
" Those who lived according to the true Logos were really Christians,
though they have been thought to be atheists, as Socrates and Heraclitus
among the Greeks.
The Rev. Dr. Cumming of London, in his discourse upon
the " Citizens of the New Jerusalem," says, —
" It is a mistake to suppose that Christianity began only eighteen
hundred years ago: it began nearly six thousand years ago: it was
preached amid the wrecks of Eden."
The Rev. Dr. Peabody (Unitarian) pertinently asks, —
" If the truths of Christianity are intuitive and self-evident, how is it
that they formed no part of anv man's consciousness till the advent of
Christ " ?
The learned Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen, whom I have
met several times both in London and Calcutta, said in a
discourse just previous to leaving England for India, —
"The Hindoo, therefore, who believes in God, is a Christian. If
purity, truth, and self-denial are Christian virtues, then Christianity is
everywhere where these virtues are to be found, without regard to
whether the possessors are called Christians, Hindoos, or Mohammedans.
Hence it comes that many Hindoos are far better Christians than many
who call themselves so. The result of my visit is, I came as a Hindoo,
I return a confirmed Hindoo. I have not accepted one doctrine which
did not previously exist in my mind.
This rational position lifts the Christianity of the ages out
of the slough of sect, out of the realm of the partial, and