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dictate. This monument shows that the Assyrians had the same 

 sacrifices as the Jews. I have a photograph here of two sacrifices pictured 

 on the gat«, and you will find in it that the same animals are pre- 

 sented for sacrifice as are mentioned in Leviticus, chapter xvL, verse 3, 

 wherein it is said, "Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place : with 

 a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt ofi"ering." 

 Well, here it is, you will see it quite plainly on the bronze gates. We 

 find that in those days the Kings of Assyria acted as high priests, and the 

 same King Shalmaneser we find took tribute from Jehu, king of Israel, as 

 an act of homage. It appears that there was a difference between the Assyrian 

 and the Babylonian religions ; it is now proved, after the recent dis- 

 coveries, that the Babylonians who migrated from the Persian Gulf, 

 had revolting and abominable sacrifices the same as there were in 

 the land of Canaan, — that is to say, they sacrificed their children to 

 idols. When we come to the Assyrians, we find that there was nothing of the 

 kind in their worship, but they imitated the sacrifices of the Jewish rites. 

 If' we follow the history of the Jews, or even that of the Christian Church, 

 we find that corruptions spread so much in them since the foundation of 

 our faith, that we do not wonder that the same occurred, in a great 

 measure, in countries like China and India, Avhich used to be very uncivilised 

 at one time. Without having the printing-press, they used merely to 

 hear of certain good theological laws and imitate them ; or, at any rate, they 

 conformed to them as well as they could. I have often heard it said by 

 the enemies of Christianity that Moses borrowed all his precepts and laws 

 from the old gentiles or heathens. We may just as well believe the same 

 of the Koran. We all know that the Koran is a corruption of the Old and 

 New Testaments, and I do not think there is a man or even a child who 

 does not know that the Koran was written by Mohammed in the seventh 

 century (a.d. 610). In my opinion the worship of Jehovah was originally pure 

 and simple, and that it so remained until the Church of God, the ancient 

 Jewish Church, began to worship the creature rather than the Creator. We 

 also know that Christianity was preached in India and China hundreds of years 

 ago, and that the Assyrian Christians — the so-called Nestorians — preached 

 in those countries about the sixth century : but they themselves go still 

 further, and say that according to their traditions their missionaries 

 preached there in the fourth century, when, as it is stated, they had 

 no less than eighty bishops in China, India, and Tartary. We can 

 well fancy, therefore, by looking back to the sixth century, and con- 

 sidering that the Christians who went out to those countries were able 

 to Christianise thousands of those people, it is to be presumed that they 

 must have left a good impression behind them of, at any rate, a part of the 

 religion they professed. Let us, for example, take the Taepings as an illus- 

 tration : we all know the man who headed the Taepings at that time was 

 a nominal Christian, and held extraordinary views, and if he had succeeded 



