In protesting against the Mass, the Reformed Churches maintain the universal priesthood, and therefore perpetual sacrifice, of the visible Church. As Christ’s witness on earth, the Church must be always offering itself, in thanksgiving for its own redemption, for the salvation of the world. Footnote 386: Fergusson, _Tree and Serpent Worship_, p. 67; Cunningham, _Bhilsa Topes_, p. 130. Footnote 387: Dr. Edkins, _Chinese Buddhism_, p. 126; Judges vi. 31. Footnote 388: Originally called Bódhitara, but renamed by his teacher Payantara, in token of his religious “insight.” He is said to have brought to China the famous alms-bowl, which all the Buddhas of the Kalpa have used, and will use, and whose final disappearance will indicate that the religion is about to perish. Thus Buddhism has also its San Greal. Bôdiharma is called the “wall-gazing Brahman,” though a Kshatrya, because on his arrival in China he spent nine years in silent meditation.—Eitel, _Sanskrit Chinese Dict._ p. 24. Footnote 389: Dr. Edkins, _Chinese Buddhism_, p. 130. Footnote 390: Men who have in vain sought God without have happily found Him in the witness of their own conscience and affection, but generally they who conceitedly reject the revelation without them only obscure the seeing faculty within. “When mysticism threw off external authority it went mad, as in the revolutionary pantheism of the Middle Ages. When it incorporated itself more and more in revealed truth, it became a benign power—as on the eve of the Reformation.”—Vaughan, _Hours with the Mystics_, vol. ii. p. 356. Footnote 391: “Mysticism,” A. Seth, _Encyc. Brit._ vol. xvii. pp. 129-136. Footnote 392: Correctly so, if we are to judge of Mysticism even from its purest phases and its best representatives, _e.g._ the Quietism of Madame Guyon, the Spiritualism of Swedenborg, the Romanticism of F. von Hardenberg, better known as Novalis. Even on its speculative or philosophical side, it would not be difficult to cull from the writings of the Cambridge Platonists, and the Idealists of Europe and America, extracts equivalent to the aphorisms of Novalis, that “action is morbid,” “to dream is to overcome,” that “the soul must abandon the actual world if it would discover in the recesses of the mystic night the Queen of Heaven, Eternal Beauty.”—_Hymns to Night_, Schriften, vol. ii. p. 158. Footnote 393: Pâtimokkha; Pârâgikâ Dhammâ, 3; _Sacred Books of the East_, vol. xiii. Footnote 394: Beal, Introduction to _Fa-Hian_, p. 42. In an important aspect the perversion of Christianity was worse than that of Buddhism. The Buddhist ascetics, though merciless to themselves, never tortured their vanquished opponents. There is no parallel to the Romish Inquisition and some Protestant atrocities in any of the annals of Buddhism. Footnote 395: ἡ σωματικὴ γυμνασία, 1 Tim. iv. 8. Footnote 396: