Rev. David Walk--Character of Jesus--Two or Three Christs Described in the Gospels--Christ's Change of Opinions--Gospels Later than the Epistles--Divine Parentage of Christ a Late Belief--The Man Christ probably a Historical Character--Jesus Belittled by his Worshipers--He never Claimed to be Divine--Christ's Omissions--Difference between Christian and other Modern Civilizations--Civilization not Promoted by Religion--Inventors--French and American Civilization: How Produced--Intemperance and Slavery in Christian Nations--Advance due to Inventions and Discoveries--Missionaries--Christian Nations Preserved by Bayonet and Ball--Dr. T. B. Taylor--Origin of Life on this Planet--Sir William Thomson--Origin of Things Undiscoverable--Existence after Death--Spiritualists--If the Dead Return--Our Calendar--Christ and Christmas-The Existence of Pain--Plato's Theory of Evil--Will God do Better in Another World than he does in this?--Consolation--Life Not a Probationary Stage--Rev. D.O'Donaghue--The Case of Archibald Armstrong and Jonathan Newgate--Inequalities of Life--Can Criminals live a Contented Life?--Justice of the Orthodox God Illustrated. THE BROOKLYN DIVINES. (1883.) Are the Books of Atheistic or Infidel Writers Extensively Read?--Increase in the Number of Infidels--Spread of Scientific Literature--Rev. Dr. Eddy--Rev. Dr. Hawkins--Rev. Dr. Haynes--Rev. Mr. Pullman--Rev. Mr. Foote--Rev. Mr. Wells--Rev. Dr. Van Dyke--Rev. Carpenter--Rev. Mr. Reed--Rev. Dr. McClelland--Ministers Opposed to Discussion--Whipping Children--Worldliness as a Foe of the Church--The Drama--Human Love--Fires, Cyclones, and Other Afflictions as Promoters of Spirituality--Class Distinctions--Rich and Poor--Aristocracies--The Right to Choose One's Associates--Churches Social Affairs--Progress of the Roman Catholic Church--Substitutes for the Churches--Henry Ward Beecher--How far Education is Favored by the Sects--Rivals of the Pulpit--Christianity Now and One Hundred Years Ago--French Revolution produced by the Priests--Why the Revolution was a Failure--Infidelity of One Hundred Years Ago--Ministers not more Intellectual than a Century Ago--Great Preachers of the Past--New Readings of Old Texts--Clerical Answerers of Infidelity--Rev. Dr. Baker--Father Fransiola--Faith and Reason--Democracy of Kindness--Moral Instruction--Morality Born of Human Needs--The Conditions of Happiness--The Chief End of Man. THE LIMITATIONS OF TOLERATION. (1888.)