e glory of Christian morality is that it is_ NOT
ORIGINAL--that its words appeal to something which _already exists
within the human heart_, and on that account have a meaning to the human
ear: _no new revelation can be made except through the medium of an old
one_. When we attribute originality to the ethics of the Gospel, we do
so on the ground, _not that it has given new precepts_, but that it has
given us a new impulse to obey the moral instincts of the soul.
Christianity itself claims on the field of morals this originality, _and
this alone_--'A new commandment give I unto you, that you love one
another." (St. Giles Lectures, Second Series: The Faiths of the World.
Religion of China, by the Rev. George Matheson, D. D., Minister of the
Parish of Innellan. Wm. Blackwood & Sons: Edinburgh, 1882.)

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX A.

Among the ancient Mexicans, Peruvians, and some of the Indian tribes of
North and South America, were found fragments of the _Eden Myth_. The
Mexicans said that the primeval mother was made out of a _man's bone_,
and that she was the mother of _twins_.[533:1]

The Cherokees supposed that heavenly beings _came down_ and made the
world, after which they made a man and woman of _clay_.[533:2] The
intention of the creators was that men should live always. But the Sun,
when he passed over, told them that there was not land enough, and that
people had better die. At length, _the daughter of the Sun_ was bitten
by a _Snake_, and died. The Sun, however--whom they worshiped as a
god--consented that human beings might live always. He intrusted to
their care a _box_, charging them that they should not open it. However,
impelled by curiosity, they opened it, contrary to the injunction of the
Sun, and the _spirit_ it contained escaped, _and then the fate of all
men was decided, that they must die_.[533:3]

The inhabitants of the New World had a legend of a _Deluge_, which
destroyed the human race, excepting a few who were saved in a boat,
which landed on a _mountain_.[533:4] They also related that _birds_ were
sent out of the ark, for the purpose of ascertaining if the flood was
abating.[533:5]

The ancient Mexicans had the legend of the _confusion of tongues_, and
related the whole story as to how the gods destroyed the tower which
mankind was building so as to reach unto heaven.[533:6]

The Mexicans, and several of the Indian tribes of North America, believe
in the doctrine of _Metempsychos