selves on a sound and palpable and unbroken highway of history, through the Hebrew, and through no other race what ever. In all others, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, they have be come swamped and swallowed up in the vast volumes of heathen darkness and sensualized fable. “ These gentlemen lay much stress on the assertion that some of the Indian resemblances to Christian facts are much prior to the Christian era. Suppose this to be actually so, the fact remains that the predictions of Christ, and of the incidents of His earth life, also stood fixed thousands of years in the Hebrew Scriptures before He Himself came ; and it is much more likely that in the intercourse known to have existed between the eastern nations for thousands of years before Christianity the Hindoos and others should have received, through then learned men, knowledge of these wonderful predictions, than that the Hebrews should have gleaned them from theirs so mixed with fantastic fable. The whole history of the Jews so proud of their superior knewledge, so exclusive in their character, is wholly opposed to the idea of such a borrowing and in the whole Hebrew history there is no trace of any such infusion from the far East. In fact the ancient and complete body of Jewish revelation had no need of it. It is far more likely that the fleets of Solomon conveyed copies of the Hebrew writings to India, which would be amazingly curious to the learned men of the Orient. Again, the Ten Tribes when carried away eastward, and absorbed in the Eastern nations, no doubt carried with them their prophets and pro phetic knowledge ; and traces of these Ten Tribes are asserted to remain among the Afghans, and even in peoples more eastern. “It is further admitted by oriental scholars that the modern doctrines and rites of both Buddhism and Brahminism are very different from the ancient ones ; and it is far more legi timate for us to suppose that St. Thomas, in his mission to India, immediately after the death of Christ, carried widely through India the new ideas and faith which led to these modifications. His Church, discovered in India in our time and described in the Christian Rescarches in Asia of the Rev. Claudius Buchanan, London, 1841, must through this long period have disseminated amongst the learned Hindoos man, Christian facts and ideas. Besides, who can doubt that the spirit of God’s wisdom and love, which is Christ, has in all ages and nations been stirring and moving in the minds and hearts of all mankind, and more or less revealing Himself there, according to the assurance of St. Paul that God had never left Himself, even amongst the heathen, without a witness? I observe that our friend, Mr. Peebles, in his Seers of the Ages, rests too much on the Anacalypsis of Godfrey Higgins a work in which there is the most eonstant straining to draw Christianity from the fragmentary passages of Hindoo mytho logy rather than from the full and positive records of the Jews themselves. Mr. Peebles and the Americans of that school do injustice to their own intellectual acumen in relying on the interested patchwork of Higgins to produce a caricature of Christ rather than on the authentic annals of Christ’s own people. Besides, who on reading, himself, the story of Crishna in the Bhagavat Gita, a philosophic poem, or in the Vishnu Purano, can recognise the pretended identity of that god with Christ? He is but one of the ten Avatâras of Vishnu, and so far from being the gentle, loving, wise, self-sacrificing being which Christ was, he is in his youth an imp of mischief and practical tricks amongst the cowboys and shepherdesses of Vrindâvana. Is it in playing pranks with Indra—in mocking his elders—in lifting a mountain into the air, with all its cow herds and cattle—in slaying a demon—in building a town with his own hands—in marrying sixteen thousand wives, and having a hundred and eighty thousand sons ; or in being killed himself by a hunter, that we recognise the likeness to Christ? These attempts, in truth, are as absurd as they are unhistorical. For what is the fact? Whatever may be the date or the character of the myths of India, Christ is no mythi cal, but an absolute and altogether historical personage. His history stands in plainest terms in the book which is as much the history of the Jews as the history of England is of the English. It is not the fable of a fabled people. That people exists amongst us and the other modern nations to-day ; is exists in fulfilment of the same age-long chain of prophecies which foretold and attested Christ; on every page of that history, from its first to its last, stands the declarations of the coming of Christ, and when He did come it was in no obscure or mythical age, but in a comparatively modern period, amid the blaze of Greek and Roman civilization, which attest, in fullest evidence, His life, death, and eternal doctrines. “To attempt to reduce to a level with pagan writers or with easter mythical deities, this Divine Man, with whom all the prior ages are filled by anticipation, and all the subsequent ones by the light and life and civilisation springing from His Gospel, is a perversion of intellect, only to be accounted for by the influence of those lying spirits, who were announced as the dark deceivers of these latter times. THERE is a probability that the Gower-street conferences will begin again very shortly. ATMOSPHERICAL INFLUENCES ON MANIFESTATIONS.—A the meeting of Mrs. C. Berry’s circle, on Thursday, December 30th, the spirits said that the weather was very bad indeed for physical manifestations ; it was scarcely possible for it to be worse. The sky was overcast with thin cloud, and a thaw had set in, with a light wind from the south-west. The dry bulb thermometer on the 28th, stood at 25 degrees ; on the 29th, at 31 degrees ; and on the 30th, at 37 degrees. The barometer on the same three days stood at 29.95, 30.22, and 30.00 inches respectively. THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—On Tuesday evening January 4th, at the ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Anthropological Society, at 4, St. Martin’s-place, Trafalgar square, Dr. R. S. Charnock, F.S.A. presided. A paper by Mr L. O. Pike, M.A., was read in the absence of its author, by Dr. Carter Blake, upon “The Psychical Elements of Religion." The writer said that in his paper he intended to exclude all revelations from God from consideration, but to include all the other numerous religions, from fetishism upwards. He would not attempt to draw a line between religion and super stition, because every man puts down his own as the true reli gion, and all others as superstitions. He said that every people who have handed down a literature have handed down a creed, and that these crceds all agree with one another, in that some angry being has to be propitiated, and that the God or gods are represented as having the passions and feelings of men ; the higher the race of men, the higher is the ideal standard which they call God. All tbe ancient religions therefore, agree by acting largely upon the fears of those who follow them. The Rev. Dunbar Heath, Mr. Dibley, Mr. W. Dendy, Mr. Charlesworth, Mr. Macrae Moir, Mr. Moncure D. Conway, and Dr. Carter Blake took part in the discussion.