2. We shall learn that there is hardly one religion which does not contain some truth, some important truth; truth sufficient to enable those who seek the Lord and feel after Him, to find Him in their hour of need.
3. We shall learn to appreciate better than ever what we have in our own religion. No one who has not examined patiently and honestly the other religions of the world, can know what Christianity really is, or can join with such truth and sincerity in the words of St. Paul: 'I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.'
FOOTNOTES:
[8] Some of the points touched upon in this Lecture have been more fully treated in my 'History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature.' As the second edition of this work has been out of print for several years, I have here quoted a few passages from it in full.
[9] 'In the sciences of law and society, old means not old in chronology, but in structure: that is most archaic which lies nearest to the beginning of human progress considered as a development, and that is most modern which is farthest removed from that beginning.'—J. F. McLennan, 'Primitive Marriage,' p. 8.
| Sanskrit | Greek | Gothic | Anglo-Saxon | German |
| véda | οἶδα | vait | wât | ich weiss |
| véttha | οἶσθα | vaist | wâst | du weisst |
| véda | οἶδε | vait | wât | er weiss |
| vidvá | — | vitu | — | — |
| vidáthuh | ἴστον | vituts | — | — |
| vidátuh | ἴστον | — | — | — |
| vidmá | ἴσμεν | vitum | witon | wir wissen |
| vidá | ἴστε | vituth | wite | ihr wisset |
| vidúh | ἴσασι | vitun | witan | sie wissen. |
[11] 'History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature,' p. 449.
[12] 'History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature,' second edition, p. 219 seq.
[13] 'Tat Savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhîmahi, dhiyo yo nah prakodayât.'—Colebrooke, 'Miscellaneous Essays,' i. 30. Many passages bearing on this subject have been collected by Dr. Muir in the third volume of his 'Sanskrit Texts,' p. 114 seq.