LECTURE VIII.

INDIRECT TRIBUTES OF HEATHEN SYSTEMS TO THE DOCTRINES
OF THE BIBLE 266

The Universality and Similarity of Race Traditions--Their General
Support of the Old Testament History--Traditions of the Creation
Found in India, China, among the Northern Turanians and some
African Tribes--The Fall of Man as Traced in Assyria and among the
Hindus--The Buddhists of Ceylon, Mongolians, Africans and Tahitans
had Similar Traditions--The Flood--Traditions of the Chinese, the
Iranians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Peruvians--The
Prevalence of Piacular Sacrifice and Tokens of a Sense of
Guilt--Traditions or Traces of Substitution Found in the
Vedas--Faint Traces in the Religion of the Egyptians--Traditions of
the Iroquois--Prophecies Looking to Divine Deliverers--The Tenth
Avatar of Vishnu yet to Come as a Restorer of Righteousness--The
Influence of the Tradition as Utilized by a Missionary--A Norse
Deliverer and Millennium--The Prediction of the Cumæan Sibyl Forty
Years before the Birth of Christ--Prevailing Conceptions of some
Mediator between God and Man--The Hindu Krishna as an
Example--Changes in Buddhism from the Old Atheism to Theism, and
even to a Doctrine of Salvation by Faith--A Trinity and at last a
Saviour--All the False Systems Claiming the Teachings and the
Character of Christ.


LECTURE IX.