то

THE GROWING

OF THOUGHTFUL MEN AND WOMEN,

MULTITUDE

WHO BELIEVE THAT "THE WORD OF GOD IS NOT BOUND" BY ANY LIMITATIONS OF BOOK, OR RACE, OR TIME,

OR RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS,

THIS COMPILATION,

FROM THE TEACHINGS AND INSPIRATIONS OF MANY CENTURIES,

AND OF DIFFERENT PEOPLES,

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

INDEX.

CHAPTER I.-HINDOSTAN BRAHMINISM.

Hymns from Rig Veda,

Hymns from Atharva Veda,

Hymns from Sama Veda,

Vedas,

Bhagvat Geeta.—Extracts,

Code of Menu,

The Brahmo-Somaj,

CHAPTER II.-BUDDHISM.

Five Buddhist Commandments, etc.,

Gathas or Hymns,

Dhammapada, or Path of Virtue, by Buddha.—Extracts,

A Modern Buddhist.-Views of Chao Phya Thipakon,

CHAPTER III.

Confucius and Mencius.-Extracts,

Zoroaster, Zend Avesta, etc.,
Modern Parsee Catechism,

CHAPTER IV.--PERSIA.

The Divine Pymander.-Extracts,

Inscriptions on Egyptian Tombs,

Amun to Thotmes,

CHAPTER V.-EGYPT.

Old Testament-Isaiah, David,

Talmudical and Rabbinical Writings,

CHAPTER VI.-HEBREW.

Philo Judaeus. Of those who offer Sacrifice, etc.,
Modern Judaism.-Rabbis Wise, Lilienthal, etc.,

Scandinavian Eddas,

Justin Martyr, St. Augustine, Basil, Arndt, Thomas A. Kempis,

Luther, Zschokke, Jean Paul, Goethe, Humboldt, etc.,

Renan.-Jesus of Nazareth,

Swedenborg. The Spiritual Man Real,

Robert Barclay.--Address to King Charles II,

Henry More, Adam Clarke, Addison, J. Wesley, Mary Fletcher,

Coleridge, Carlyle,

What Religious Teachers should do.--Frances Power Cobbe,

The Religion of the Heart.-Leigh Hunt,

Herbert Spencer, Sydney Smith, Ruskin, Spurgeon, Dickens, John

Robertson,

The Future that awaits us.-Catharine Crowe,

Reign of Law.-Duke of Argyle,

Sayings and Foretellings, etc.-F. W. Newman,

The Study of Physics.-John Tyndall,.

Wm. Howitt, Max Muller, Buckle,

Human Interest in History.--Moral Elements.-Froude,

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The Church of the Future.-E. N. Dennys,
God's Voice nearer than the Book.-Colenso,
Toleration, and Study of the Bible.-F. Temple,

CHAPTER XIII. SYMPATHY OF RELIGIONS.

The Sympathy of Religions-Extracts.-T. W. Higginson,

CHAPTER XIV.-AMERICA.

The Divine Principle within.-Woolman,
Sayings and Opinions.-Thomas Paine,
The Light within, etc.-Elias Hicks,
Essentials in Religion.-W. E. Channing,

Man's Demands, God's Commands, etc.-H. C. Wright,
Creeds.-S. J. May,

Free Thought and Free Speech.-W. L. Garrison,
The Reformer.-J. G. Whittier,

Forgiveness and Love.-Lydia M. Child,
Spiritual Christianity.-T. Starr King,

R. Collyer, J. M. Peebles, John Weiss,

Free Religion and a Free State.-S. Johnson,

Culture Demanded by Modern Life, etc.-E. L. Youmans,

Growth and Self-Sacrifice.-E. H. Chapin,

Spiritual Views.-R. D. Owen,

Ministration of Departed Spirits.-H. B. Stowe,
Future Life Near and Real.-H. W. Beecher,

How Ideas get Spoken,-Reformers.-H. Tuttle,
Sentiments of Progressive Friends, etc.,

Dogma versus Truth.- David Newport,
God's Command to Impart Truth.-B. Hallowell,
Lesson of Quakerism.—A, M. Powell,
Quietism and Work.-C. D. B. Mills,
Christ's Character, etc.-H. Bushnell, H. Bisbee,
Immortality in the Light of Science.--W. J. Potter,
Future of Earth and Man.-William Denton,

True Prayer--Fifty Affirmations.-F. E. Abbott,
Physical Condition of Humanity.-H. Seaver,
Teachings,-A Prayer.--Theodore Parker,
Sayings.-A. B, Alcott,

Religion and Science.-Gerritt Smith,

Disappointment--A Teacher in God's School, etc.-T. L. Cuyler, .

The New Religion.-Theodore Tilton,

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