uoted in Anthology...377
Sharpe, Egyptian Mythology...360, 375, 381, 385, 386
Strauss, Life of Jesus...383

Taylor, Diegesis...359, 378
Tertullian, On Baptism...379

Zoroaster, quoted by Inman...376

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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

Angels and devils...383

Baptism...378

Confirmation...379
Cross...357
Crucifix...358

Devils and angels...383
Divinity of Christ...363

Essenes...388

Immortality...374

Judgment of the Dead...385

Logos, ideas of...364
Lord's Supper...379

Mediator...362
Mithras...362
Monasticism...385

Nature and Sun-worship the origin of creeds...355

Osirianism and Christianity...391

Philo, date of...367, 387
Plato's teaching...364
Priesthood...381

Saints, old gods...391
Symbols of male energy...356
" female energy...361
" both in present ceremonies...381

Therapeuts...386
Trinity...359

Union of male and female foundation of religion...355
Unity of God...377

Virgin and child...360

Zoroaster's teaching...362, 376

SECTION III.--ITS MORALITY FALLIBLE.

How much may fairly be included under the title "Christian Morality"?
Some of the more enlightened Christians would confine the term to the
morality of the New Testament, and would exclude the Hebrew code as
being the outcome of a barbarous age. But the Freethinker may fairly
contend that any moral rules taught by the Bible are part of Christian
morality. By the statute 9 and 10 William III, cap. 32, the "Holy
Scriptures of the Old and New Testament" are declared to be "of divine
authority," and there is no exclusion indicated of the Mosaic code; this
statute is binding on all British subjects educated as Christians, and
enacts penalties against those who infringe it. By Article VI. of the
Church of England, Holy Scripture is defined as "those canonical books
of the Old and New Testament, of whose authority was never any doubt in
the Church," and a list is subjoined. In Article VII. we are instructed
that the "Commandments which are called moral" are to be obeyed, but
that the "civil precepts" of the Mosaic code ought not "of necessity to
be received in any commonwealth;" from which we may conclude that the
Church does not feel bound to enforce, as "of necessity," polygamy,
prostitution, murder of heretics, and slavery. She does not venture to
designate such precepts as immoral, but she does not feel bound in
conscience to enforce them, for which small c