I--Religion makes Enemies--Hatred in the Name of Universal Benevolence--No Respect for the Rights of Barbarians--Literal Fulfillment of a New Testament Prophecy--II. Duties to God--Can we Assist God?--An Infinite Personality an Infinite Impossibility-Ill. Inspiration--What it Really Is--Indication of Clams--Multitudinous Laughter of the Sea--Horace Greeley and the Mammoth Trees--A Landscape Compared to a Table-cloth--The Supernatural is the Deformed--Inspiration in the Man as well as in the Book--Our Inspired Bible--IV. God's Experiment with the Jews--Miracles of One Religion never astonish the Priests of Another--"I am a Liar Myself"--V. Civilized Countries--Crimes once regarded as Divine Institutions--What the Believer in the Inspiration of the Bible is Compelled to Say--Passages apparently written by the Devil--VI. A Comparison of Books--Advancing a Cannibal from Missionary to Mutton--Contrast between the Utterances of Jehovah and those of Reputable Heathen--Epictetus, Cicero, Zeno, Seneca--the Hindu, Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius--The Avesta--VII. Monotheism--Egyptians before Moses taught there was but One God and Married but One Wife--Persians and Hindoos had a Single Supreme Deity--Rights of Roman Women--Marvels of Art achieved without the Assistance of Heaven--Probable Action of the Jewish Jehovah incarnated as Man--VIII. The New Testament--Doctrine of Eternal Pain brought to Light--Discrepancies--Human Weaknesses cannot be Predicated of Divine Wisdom--Why there are Four Gospels according to Irenæus--The Atonement--Remission of Sins under the Mosaic Dispensation--Christians say, "Charge it"--God's Forgiveness does not Repair an Injury--Suffering of Innocence for the Guilty--Salvation made Possible by Jehovah's Failure to Civilize the Jews--Necessity of Belief not taught in the Synoptic Gospels--Non-resistance the Offspring of Weakness--IX. Christ's Mission--All the Virtues had been Taught before his Advent--Perfect and Beautiful Thoughts of his Pagan Predecessors--St. Paul Contrasted with Heathen Writers--"The Quality of Mercy"--X. Eternal Pain--An Illustration of Eternal Punishment--Captain Kreuger of the Barque Tiger--XI. Civilizing Influence of the Bible--Its Effects on the Jews--If Christ was God, Did he not, in his Crucifixion, Reap what he had Sown?--Nothing can add to the Misery of a Nation whose King is Jehovah ORTHODOXY. (1884.)