thousands the feeling thus terribly expressed by Bunyan, "I blessed the condition of the dog and toad because they had no soul to perish under the everlasting weight of hell!"

Sight of truth, with devout and loving submission to it, is an achievement whose nobleness outweighs its sorrow, even if the gazer foresee his own destruction.

When we die, may the Spirit of Truth, the Comforter of Christ, be our confessor; the last inhaled breath our cup of absolution; the tears of some dear friend our extreme unction; no complaint for past trials, but a grateful acknowledgment for all blessings, our parting word. And then, resigning ourselves to the universal Father, assured that whatever ought to be, and is best to be, will be, either absolute oblivion shall be welcome, or we will go forward to new destinies, whether with preserved identity or with transformed consciousness and powers being indifferent to us, since the will of God is done. In the mean time, until that critical pass and all-decisive hour, as Milnes says, with the rare eloquence of that deep poem, "The Marvel of Life," earnest and weighty as its theme,

"We all must patient stand,

Like statues on appointed pedestals:

Yet we may choose-since choice is given-to shun
Servile contentment or ignoble fear

In the expression of our attitude;

And with far-straining eyes, and hands upcast,
And feet half raised, declare our painful state,
Yearning for wings to reach the fields of truth,
Mourning for wisdom, panting to be free."

INDEX.

ABBOT, Ezra, Jr., acknowledgments to, preface, iii. | Apocalypse, doctrine of future life in, 244.

Absolution, how effected by Romish priests, 556.
Absorption, analogy which leads to, considered, 58.

doctrine of, considered, 57.

Acosta's account of the Peruvian belief in the Apocalyptic personification of death, 19.

Atonement, modern doctrine of, unknown to the Blackwell's arguments on the religion of North-
Fathers, 398.

men, 92.

Augustine and Pelagius, controversy between, Bleek's Commentary, 359.

396.

Augustine, doctrines of, 220, 402.

doubts of, 10.

explanation by, 233.

reference to works, 505.

remarks on the death of Christ, 266.
views of, 397.

Augustine's opinion of the resurrection, 492.
Augustinian theology, 563.
Avestan dialect, 130.

Works, 250.

Blood, figurative meaning of the word, 256.
Blood of Christ, efficacy of the offering of, 238.
Blood of Jesus, signification of, 235.
Blood, signification of, in Scripture, 224.
Blount, opinions of the ancients as given by, 56,
Bodily restoration not taught by Christ, 325.
Body and soul, distinction between, 376.
Body and spirit, Hebrew distinction of, 153.
Boehme, opinions held by, 485.

religion, resurrection an element of, 141. Bohlen, investigations of, 133.
Aztec poem, extract from, 73.

Babylon, religion of Zoroaster flourished in, 128.

residence of the Hebrews there, 141.

Bacchic Mysteries, 459.

Bailey, quotation from, 592.

Bahrdt, views of, on universal salvation, 546.
Bain, Alexander, theory of, 629.
Bakewell on Future State, 41.
Ballou on future punishment, 558.
Baptism, Christian, the rite of, 403.

Baptism, opinions of the Fathers concerning, 400.
Baptist Church, theory of salvation held by, 563.
Barbarian notions of a future life, 68.

Bards, Welsh, representation of the Druids, 84.
Barnes, Albert, thoughts on future punishment,
540.

Barnes on the Hebrew doctrine of the resurrec-
tion, 148.

Barrow, Dr., assertion of, 516.

Bonnet's view of the future existence of the
soul, 45.

Bonnet's works cited, 507.
Borelli, theory held by, 443.

Bopp's Grammar of the Sanscrit, &c., 129.

Brahmin and Buddhist conception of the crea-
tion, 106.

Brahmin belief in the fate of good and bad men, 471.
Brahmanic and Buddhist doctrine of a future
life, 105.

Brahmanic and Christian doctrines, distinction
between, 59.

Brahmanic method of salvation, 112.
Brahmanic poem, 645.

Brahmanic schismatic sects, 112.
Brahmanic views of salvation, 564.

Bretschneider, reference to works, 43, 48, 236,
246, 360, 363, 395, 490, 555.

Bretschneider's sermon on dying man and brute,
36.

Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire's opinion of Nirwána, Brewster's More Worlds than One, cited, 599.
123.

Bartlett, personal narrative of, cited, 476.

Baumgarten's account of funeral rites of Indians,
74.

Baumgarten's works referred to, 440.
Baur on the Atonement, 362.

opinions of Egyptians as given by, 56.
quotation from, 406.

Baxter, on the immortality of the soul, 430.
Beard, Dr., translation by, referred to, 438.
Beatification, Romish ceremony of, 471.
Bede, account of purgatory by, 411.
Beecher's Conflict of Ages cited, 547.
Berkeley, Bishop, bantered by Halley, 83.
reference to work. 444.

Berman on the fate of the heathen, 562.
Bernard, H. H., work cited, 169.

of Clairvaux, exhortation of, 426.

Bertholdt, referred to, 227.

Talmudical interpretations, 169.

Bertram, German work by, cited, 501.

on the future state of the soul, 63.

Britius, St., anecdote of, 413.
Brodie's Inquiries referred to, 629.
Browne's account of Indian rites, 79.

Browne, Sir Thomas, opinions of the resurrection,
498.

Browning, Robert, lines quoted from, 37.
Brutes, future life of, 36.

Büchner, remark of, 616.

Bucknill and Tuke, reference to work by, 448.
quotation from, 619.

Buddha, arguments from, prove no self in man,
122.

Buddhaship, attainment of, 116.

Buddhist and Romish usages, coincidence be-
tween, 410.

Buddhist belief in the fate of good and bad men,

471.

Buddhist kosmos, 593.

Buddhist temple, description of a picture in, 570.

Buddhist views of salvation, 564.

Bull, a Persian emblem, 135.

Bulwer, Sir Ed. Lytton, on eternal migrations of

soul, 64.

Bulwer, quotation from, 606.

Bichât's definition of life, 20.

Bigotry of the Jews, 171.

Bishop George slain, 468.

Bishop of Toronto, declaration of, 515.
Blackburne, works referred to, 431.

nature meant him for a salamander, 480.

reference to works, 393.

quotation from his King Arthur. 585.

Calvin's description of the state of the damned, Church of England, exposition of the Creed by,