The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . at that period, God calledAbraham out of Chaldea for the special purpose of preserving the know-ledge of his unity and perfection. From that time to the period ofMessiahs advent, idolatry prevailed among all the nations, with thesingle exception of the Hebrew; and even that nation was not at alltimes exempt from it: and with the same exception, in connexion with Paganism. 49 those who have embraced the religion of Mohammed, and t
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . at that period, God calledAbraham out of Chaldea for the special purpose of preserving the know-ledge of his unity and perfection. From that time to the period ofMessiahs advent, idolatry prevailed among all the nations, with thesingle exception of the Hebrew; and even that nation was not at alltimes exempt from it: and with the same exception, in connexion with Paganism. 49 those who have embraced the religion of Mohammed, and those whohave experienced the benign influence of the gospel, the whole worldhas been under its dominion from the last mentioned period down tothe present hour. Not a few of our prominent writers have been fond of descanting onthe Religion of Nature, and the Religion of Reason. Let us look atthem. For six thousand years men have cherished the feelings ofNature, and pursued the dictates of Reason, and with the exception ofJudaism and Christianity, all the forms in which they have embodiedtheir religious ideas are to be regarded as its results. The idolatries of. Christians exposed to Wild Beasts in the Circus. various nations, fire-worship in Persia, the twin-sisters of Brahminismand Buddhism in India, Confucianism in China, Mohammedanism inArabia, and Pantheism in Germany, with various others of minor im-portance ;—these are all the products of Reason; for men had herguidance then as well as now,—there as well as here. They had it in 4 50 Introduction. Persia, when they worshipped the sun; in India, when they adoptedtheir millions of idols ; in Egypt, when to rivers, four-footed beasts, andcreeping things, they paid divine honors; in Rome, when they adoptedthe idols of conquered nations, and crowded them into the capitol; inGreece, when they worshipped a statue of exquisite beauty as the rep-resentative of a god. They had it, too, in those temples of voluptuousdeities where
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