Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle . istianity ; though if versed in the prac-tices of the Romish Church, and if not tracing the line of con-nection between the two, he would consider that he had dis-covered another nest of analogies between heathenism andPopery. But let us hear M. Hue. Upon the most superficial examination of the reforms andinnovations introduced by Tsong Kaba into the Lamanesqueworship, one must be struck with their affinit
Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle . istianity ; though if versed in the prac-tices of the Romish Church, and if not tracing the line of con-nection between the two, he would consider that he had dis-covered another nest of analogies between heathenism andPopery. But let us hear M. Hue. Upon the most superficial examination of the reforms andinnovations introduced by Tsong Kaba into the Lamanesqueworship, one must be struck with their affinity to Cathohcism. 90 TWENTY-NINTH WEEK THURSDAY. The cross, the mitre, the duhnatica, the cope, which the grandLamas wear in their journeys, or when they are performingsome ceremony out of the temple ; the service with doublechoirs, the psahnody, the exercises, the censer suspended fromfive chains, and which you can open or close at pleasure; thebenediction given by the Lama by extending the right handover the heads of the faithful; the chaplet, ecclesiasticalcelibacy, spiritual retirement, the worship of the saints, thefeasts, the processions, the litanies, the holy water—all these. are analogies between the Budhists and ourselves. Now, canit be said these analogies are of Christian origin ? We thinkso. We have indeed found neither in the traditions nor in themonuments of the country, any positive proof of their adop-tion ; still it is peifectly legitimate to put forward conjectures,which have all the characters of the most emphatic probability. It is known that in the fourteenth century, at the time ofthe domination of the Mongol emperors, there existed frequentrelations between the Europeans and the people of Upper have already, in the former part of our narrative, referredto those celebrated embassies which the Tartar conquerors CHRISTIANITY AND BUDHISM. 91 sent to Konie, to France, and to England. There is no doubtthat the baibarians who thus visited Europe must h
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