Thoroughly immoral is the teaching contained in the two parables in Luke xvi. In the one, a steward who has wasted his master's goods, is commended because he went and bribed his employer's debtors to assist him, by suggesting to them that they should cheat his master by altering the amount of the bills they owed him. In the other, the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, the evil moral is taught that riches are in themselves deserving of punishment, and poverty of reward. The rich man is in hell simply because he was rich, and the poor man in Abraham's bosom simply because he was poor; it can scarcely add, one may remark, to the pleasure of heaven for the Lazaruses all to look at the Diveses, and be unable to reach them, even to give them a single drop of water. Thus whether we see that the nobler part of the Christian morality is pre-Christian, and is neither Christian, nor Jewish, nor Hindu, nor Buddhist, but is simply human, and belongs to the race and not to one creed. Whether we note the omissions in its code, making it insufficient for human guidance; whether we mark its errors, mistakes, and injurious teachings; whichever point of view we take from which to consider it, we find in it nothing to distinguish it above other moral codes, or to prevent it from being classed among other moralities, as being a mixture of good and bad, and, therefore, not to be taken as an, unerring guide, being like them, all FALLIBLE. * * * * * INDEX TO SECTION III. OF PART II. * * * * * INDEX OF BOOKS USED. Bhagavat Gita, in Anthology...406 Bradlaugh, The Bible: what it is...397 " What Did Jesus Teach?...414 Buddha, in Anthology...403, 405 " Wheel of the Law...408 Cahen, Lévitique...398 Colenso, Pentateuch and Book of Joshua...396 Confucius, in Anthology...403, 404, 408 Dante, Inferno...403 Dhammapada, in Anthology...403 Gouldburn, Thoughts on Personal Religion...411 Kalisch, Leviticus...399, 400, 401 Katha-Chari, in Anthology...407 Kwan-yin, in Anthology...407 Lao-Tsze, in Anthology...403, 404 Mahabharata, in Muir...410 Manu, in Anthology...404, 405, 406, 419 Mencius, in Anthology...407 Prayer Book, Art. vi. vii....395 Ramayana, in Anthology...407 Sabaean Book of the Law, in Anthology...404, 405 Shelley, Queen Mab...402 She-King, in Anthology...407 Statutes, 9 and 10 William III. cap. 32...395 Talmud, quoted by Besant...405 * * * * * INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Christian morality, compared with others...403 " degrading to women...419 " immoral towards sin...419 " non-original...403 " non-resistant...412 " omissions in...411 " paved way for despotism...412 " persecuting in spirit...418 " sanctions mendicancy...416 " selfish...417 " what included in...395