This is the apt name of a book of lectures by Rev. Leighton Parks, of Emmanuel Church (Episcopal) Boston. Its aims are two: 'first, to carefully and honestly depict several Eastern religions,—chiefly Brahmanism, Buddhism, and Zoroastriauism; and second, to show how in these may be seen the Star of Jesus faintly glimmering,—the dawn of those ideas which reach their noonday in Christ.
Though many a reader may be unable to accept all Mr. Parks's conclusions as to the supreme relation of Christianity to these older theologies, none can question the fearless and fair spirit of his presentation of the subject.
Some of the cited passages are of peculiar interest, such as the following, from the ancient Upanishads:
