Samuel

in the darkne heard the voice of Yahveh calling to him. Moses heard his voice in the thorn-bush. Muhammad heard Gabriel speaking in the lone weird cave of Mt. Hira, whence came the grand monotheistic reformation of Asia. The humble Nanak—a good Hindu—was thus entranced by visions of the creator Vishnu, and lived to found the Theism of Sikhs or “disciples,” the “Protestant ism” of Western India. ‘The Apostles had their “call” at Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost appeared as “cloven tongues of fire” on their heads, with a “sound from heaven as of a mighty | rushing wind.” Saul of ‘Tarsus had an alarming conversion when he was struck blind to earth. [Buddha and Christ, pa ing through their temptations, became—not monks but masters of the world —Ep.] But on the other hand, the foundation being false the superstructure is a phantasm. Many converts develop monomanias, and worse than suicidal tendencies; they go to recruit the ranks of Anarchists, Nihilists, regicides, and fanatic murderers: they become usele hermits, filthy ascetiks, monks, or nuns, intent on vain rites, and false creeds, or hysterical devotions, ‘They continually arrest the progre of the world in learning and true religion. The noble and generous Lincoln was murdered by J. W. Booth, who had had a highly religious education. 518