[40] About 1832 the Rev. Ralph Waldo Emerson notified his congregation in Boston (Unitarian) that he could no longer administer the "Lord's Supper," and near the same time the Rev. W. J. Fox took the same course at South Place Chapel, London. The Boston congregation clung to the sacrament, and gave up their minister to mankind. The London congregation gave up the sacrament, and there was substituted for it the famous South Place Banquet, which was attended by such men as Leigh Hunt, Mill, Thomas Campbell, Jerrold, and such women as Harriet Martineau, Eliza Flower, Sarah Flower Adams (who wrote "Nearer, My God, To Thee"). The speeches and talk at this banquet were of the highest character, and the festival was no doubt nearer in spirit to the supper of Jesus and his friends than any sacrament. [41] Dr. Nicholson's "The Gospel According to the Hebrews," p. 60. In all of my references to this Gospel I depend on this learned and very useful work. [42] It has always been a condition of missionary propagandise that the new religion must adopt in some form the popular festivals, cherished observances and talismans of the folk. It will be seen by 1 Cor. x. 14-22 that Paul's eucharist was only a competitor with existing eucharist, with their "cup of devils," as he calls it. [43] Ormazd entrusted Zoroaster for seven days with omniscience, during which time he saw, besides many other things, "a celebrity with much wealth, whose soul, infamous in the body, was hungry and jaundiced and in hell ... and I saw a beggar with no wealth and helpless, and his soul was thriving in paradise."--Bahman Yast. Sacred Books of the East, Vol. V. p. 197. [44] Nicholson's "Gospel According to the Hebrews," pp. 36-43. [45] Sacred Books of the East, Vol. iv, p. 206. [46] In the apocryphal book, "Bel and the Dragon" (verse 36), the angel thus bore by the hair Habakkuk to Babylon, and set him over the lion's den where Daniel was confined. Habakkuk means the "embrace of love." [47] I observed in the play at Oberammergau that while the disciples were barefoot, Jesus wore fine white silk stockings, and was otherwise in richer costume. [48] On a very ancient sarcophagus in the Museo Gregoriano, Rome, is represented in bas-relief the raising of Lazarus. Christ appears beardless and equipped with a wand in the received guise of a necromancer, while the corpse of Lazarus is swathed in bandages exactly as an Egyptian mummy.--King's Gnostics, p. 145.