It is declared, in view of the many wise precepts which issued from the mouth of Jesus Christ, that "he spake as never man spake." (John vii. 46.) If this were true, then Gods must have been very numerous prior to the Christian era. For there is not one of the moral maxims or preceptive commands which he gave utterance to that cannot be found literally or substantially in the older bibles of other nations, or the writings of the Greek philosophers, and the religious dissertations of heathen moralists, who gave out moral and religious lessons for the instruction of the world long prior to the birth of Christ. Even the Golden Rule, which Christian writers, ignorant or oriental history, have erroneously ascribed to Jesus Christ, and lauded him as being the author of, is found variously expressed in the writings of several heathen or oriental nations. We find it in the Chinese bible at least live hundred years older than ours, almost word for word as Jesus uttered it. We will here present it as expressed by different writers. 1. Golden Rule by Confucius, 500 B. C. "Do unto another what you would have him do unto you, and do not to another what you would not have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest." 2. Golden Rule by Aristotle, 385 B. C. "We should conduct ourselves toward others as we would have them act toward us." 3. Golden Rule by Pittacus, 650 B. C. "Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him." 4. Golden Rule by Thales, 464 B. C. "Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing." 5. Golden Rule by Isocrates, 338 B. C. "Act toward others as you desire them to act toward you." 6. Golden Rule by Aristippus, 365 B. C. "Cherish reciprocal benevolence, which will make you as anxious for another's welfare as your own." 7. Golden Rule by Sextus, a Pythagorean, 406 B. C. "What you wish your neighbors to be to you, such be also to them." 8. Golden Rule by Hillel, 50 B. C. "Do not to others what you would not like others to do to you." Here is the Golden Rule proclaimed by seven heathen moralists and a Jew long before it was republished by the founder of Christianity; thus proving it to be of heathen origin, and proving that it does not transcend the natural capacity of the human brain to originate, and hence needs no God to reveal it. Indeed, it is one of the most natural sentiments of the human mind. "Would I like to be treated thus?" is the first thought which naturally arises in the mind of a person when maltreating a neighbor; thus showing that the Golden Rule is a spontaneous utterance of the moral feelings of the human mind. LOVE AND KIND TREATMENT OF ENEMIES.