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Continuing his paper the next day, Rabbi Klein tried to 
show that Christ borrowed from Kssenism, as the author had 
determined it, the principles of his gospel. 
In the discussion which followed, Professor Albert Réville 
showed that true Essenism is an extreme manifestation of 
the Pharisee principle—that of the separation of the pure and 
the impure. It could not therefore have inspired the gospel 
of Christ. 
Mr. Fries, of Stockholm, then commenced the reading of 
his paper upon “ The Conceptions of Jesus as to the Resurrec- 
tion of the Dead,” which he finished at the next sitting (the 
fourth) of this section. He showed that according to Christ, 
the just, on dying, entered immediately and integrally into 
eternal life. 
In the discussion which followed Professor Oppert contested 
that there had never been in Mosaic Judaism, apart from 
Jewish mythology, any doctrine whatever as to the lot of 
man after death. 
It was at the final sitting that M. Camerlynck, of Amiens, 
asked that the relations between Christianity and Buddhism 
should be studied more closely, leading to the resolution to 
that effect already referred to. The remarks made led 
M. A. Réville to set forth some of the most striking analogies 
between the two religions, but he insisted upon the radical 
differences of tendency which separates them, the one having 
as its ideal the constantly increasing expansion of life into 
life eternal, and the other tending to annihilation as being 
the supreme happiness of the soul. 
The last paper of this section was that of Professor Jean 
Réville, one of the Secretaries of the Congress, who spoke of 
the testimony brought by the Book of the Shepherd of Hermas 
(from 125 to 140 A.D.) as to the history of the first Christian 
community at Rome. This was a mundane community, 
comprising rich people in its numbers, and but little 
tormented with doctrinal preoccupations, though the worries 
of discipline already manifested themselves in it. There 
was not yet a monarchic episcopacy at Rome in their 
days. 
I have tried to produce a fairly complete statement of the 
work done at the First Congress for the History of Religions 
held at Paris in September last, and though I have not been 
able to give as much information at first hand as I should 
have liked, I trust that it will not on that account have lost 
much of its interest. The principal thing wanting about it 
