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cations of it all through the Yedic hymns. Secondly, we are 
unable to trace any chronological succession. Although he 
speaks of a diverse age, yet he seems only able to judge of the 
age by the contents, which, in a case like the present, is a 
mode of judgment utterly inadequate to the establishment of 
succession. The most diverse doctrines may have been pro- 
pounded simultaneously, or in an order the reverse of that 
which is supposed. We have a much wider range of difference 
in doctrines at the present time, propounded by men all of 
whom claim to be Christian, than Mr. Miiller has presented 
to us from the Yedas. Thirdly, we find a still greater diffi- 
culty, in that the Yedic worshippers are assumed to have 
started without the predicate God, and to have proceeded 
onward to a truer knowledge and deeper love of God, until 
they had perfected their elaborate ceremonial, fully evolved 
their doctrine, and thus had accomplished the whole journey. 
And yet the reformers, Zoroaster and the Buddha, made great 
strides in advance, by destroying the work of the Yedic 
singers, and bringing back the people from the regions into 
which they had wandered to the point from which they 
started — a simple worship of the one living God-. That this 
was really the point from which they started will be seen from 
what follows : — 
11 1 shall read you a few Vedic verses, in which the religious sentiment 
predominates, and in which we perceive a yearning after truth, and after the 
true God, untrammelled as yet by any names or any traditions.” 
Therefore, before a subject for the predicate, God, was 
found : — 
“ 1. In the beginning there arose the golden Child — He was the one born 
lord of all that is. He established the earth and this sky ; — Who is the God 
to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? 
u 2. He who gives life, He who gives strength ; whose command all the 
bright gods revere, whose shadow is immortality, whose shadow is death ; — 
Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? 
“ 3. He who through His power is the one King of the breathing and 
awaking world ; He who governs man and beast ; — Who is the God to 
whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? 
“4. He whose greatness these snowy mountains, whose greatness the 
sea proclaims, with the distant river — He whose these regions are, as it were, 
His two arms ; — Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? 
“ 5. He through whom the sky is bright and the earth firm — He through 
whom the heaven was established, nay, the highest heaven — He who mea- 
sured out the light in the air ; — Who is the God to whom we shall offer our 
sacrifice ? 
“ 6. He to whom heaven and earth, standing firm by His will, look up, 
trembling inwardly — He over whom the rising sun shines forth ; — Who is 
the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice ? 
“ 7. Wherever the mighty water-clouds went, where they placed the seed 
