Essay On The Common Features Which Appear In All Forms Of Religious Belief PDF Download

Excerpt from Essay on the Common Features Which Appear in All Forms of Religious Belief And now my Sunimer-task is ended. Roll Up all my papers, and my volumes close: From parts divergent 1 have sought a whole, Complete and perfect, as before me rose The variant Message, which from Heaven's abode Came down to earth to lead poor man to God. Each Message but reveals th' unchanging plan Of Love and Kindness to poor Humankind, And, like a sunflower, turns the heart of man Groping through darkness his soul's sun to find: No cavern is so dark, but through the night One ray streams in of God's eternal light. As his forefathers did in Abraham's time, Still by the stream the Brahmin chaunts his prayers; The Buddhist asks for nothing, but sublime Emancipation from Life's dreary cares. Oh ! could no Angel earth's hard path have trod To whisper in his ear : "There is a God!" Can we believe, that all-embracing Grace, Which o'er Creation's waters used to glide, Chose out one puny, graceless. Jewish Race, And shut the gates of Hope on all beside: Let them indulge their passions and their crimes And raise up trophies to outlive all times? Buddha, Confucius, Plato, Socrates, Left words of gold, which no age can destroy; They please, when all things else have ceased to please: But of those holy men how great the joy, Had God's own Message by their soul been heard; If one still voice their inward heart had stirred! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.