After mature reflection the conclusion must be reached that the greatest happiness of which man is capable arises from three sources: (1) The perception of new truth; (2) Its impartation to others; (3) Doing good to others. A more rational conception of future blessedness than this is impossible. If these views are correct, it is the highest wisdom to cherish and cultivate on earth and during life the tastes, the desires, the affections, the principles which in themselves constitute the highest bliss of saints and angels in all possible worlds. And as to hell after death, we have nothing to fear but the hell we may carry with us—the hell of unholy lust, the hell of unsanctified passion, the hell of selfishness, the hell which follows wrong living and wrong doing. But we must bring this book to a close. The writer is a firm believer in God, in religion, and in morality; he accepts the Bible for just what it is. He believes in the continuity of life after death and in future rewards and punishments. If he believed that he had written anything in this book to weaken faith in these doctrines, he would commit the manuscript to the flames instead of to the printer. INDEX *A* Abraham a myth, 149 and his servant, 131 and phallic emblems, 131 and Saturn, 150 offering Isaac—Parallels, 151- 154 Abrahamie Covenant, 155 Abydos and Bunsen’s Egyptian tables, 96 Adams, Dr., on forty-two children and the she-bears, 162 Capt. R. C., how to dispense with ministers, 40 Admission of Albertus, 180 of Ambrose, 179 of Augustine, 321 of Clemens Alexandrinus, 364 of Tertullian, 179 Alexandria, systems of religion prevalent in, 347 Anno Domini, invented in the sixth century, generally adopt-1 ed in the tenth, 299 Aristotle, maxims of, disapproved, 24 Arnold, Matthew, his definition of God, 421 Assyrian cuneiform tablets, discovery 1873–74, 97 Athens and Sparta, date 1550 B.C., 108 Avatars, all announced by celestial signs, 309- 312 *B* Bagster’s Comprehensive Bible on the phallic oath, 132 Barlow on tree-worship, 125 Beatty, Hon. James, his opposition to salaried ministers, 40 Berosus on Chaldean history, 98 Blackstone on witches, 118 Blauvelt, Dr. A., 16 17 British Museum, manuscripts, 74 Brooks, Bishop, on insincerity in the pulpit, 43 Brotherhood of man, 342 343 Buckland on May music in Magdalen Church, 137 Buddha, died 377 years before Christ, 104 Budge, Dr., manuscripts classified by, 75 Burnet, Bishop, on the story of the creation, 146 Dr., on concealing the truth, 44 Burr, W. H., on area of Palestine and its population, 63-70. *C* Cardinal Cajetan’s admission, 178 Chaldean history, date of, 109 Child, Lydia Maria, and women at Ocean Grove, 136 Christ, doubts as to his existence, 367- 369 Christus and Christianus, evidence of modern fabrication, 207 Chrysostom on the 25th of December, 243 Cicero on symbolism, 122 Cicero’s definition of religion, 12 424