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ing effects of the fall, have still not altogether 

 vanished from the sky. And this significant 

 fact should imbue with becoming modesty those 

 who are wont so confidently to obtrude what they 

 unwarrantedly assume to be the innate voice of 

 reason upon this problem, but which really is 

 their perverted view of it. For this admitted 

 intuition of the heathen world demonstrates 

 clearly that the verdict of the universal con- 

 sciousness sustains the view propounded by reve- 

 lation. " 



We will adduce some facts concerning the 

 belief of the non-Christian religions, in support 

 of the foregoing statement. These statements 

 cover the belief of the Hindoos, Egyptians, 

 Romans and Greeks, etc. 



' ' Among the ancient Egyptians this doctrine 

 (eternal punishment) found impersonation in the 

 deity, Osiris, who is represented in their works of 

 sacred art as sitting upon a judgment seat in the 

 realms below, allotting their respective destiny 

 to departed spirits. Having weighed each heart 

 in his inexorable scales, he thereupon sent the 

 wicked to regions of perpetual darkness, but the 

 virtuous, having first been permitted to drink of 

 the water of immortal youth, which distilled like 

 dew from the tree of life eternal, were admitted 

 to the realm of light and the gods" (Religions 

 before Christ). 



The faith of the Greeks and the Romans is. 



