AND THEIR

PARALLELS IN OTHER RELIGIONS:

BEING A COMPARISON OF THE

Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles

WITH

THOSE OF HEATHEN NATIONS OF ANTIQUITY,

CONSIDERING ALSO

THEIR ORIGIN AND MEANING.

By T. W. Doane

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS.

"The same thing which is now called CHRISTIAN RELIGION, existed among the
Ancients. They have begun to call Christian, the true religion which existed before."
-ST. AUGUSTIN.

"Our love for what is old, our reverence for what our fathers used, makes us keep
still in the church, and on the very altar cloths, symbols which would excite the smile of
an Oriental, and lead him to wonder why we send missionaries to his land, while cherish-
ing his faith in ours."-JAMES BONWICK.

NEW YORK:

J. W. BOUTON, 706 BROADWAY.

1883.

"All truth is safe, and nothing else is safe; and he who keeps back the truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal, or both."

But little beyond the arrangement of this work is claimed as original. Ideas, phrases, and even whole paragraphs have been taken from the writings of others, and in most, if not in all cases, acknowledged; but with the thought in mind of the many hours of research this book may save the student in this particular line of study; with the consciousness of having done for others that which I would have been thankful to have found done for myself; and more than all, with the hope that it may in some way help to hasten the day when the mist of superstition shall be dispelled by the light of reason; with all its defects, it is most cheerfully committed to its fate by the author.

BOSTON, MASS., November, 1882.