The Bibles Of The World

I lio seven Isibles 01 the worM are ihiKoran of the Mohammcdan. tlieTri l'itiko it the Buddliisfx, i lio I'ive Kin ni (he Chinese, the throe Veda of the Ilmdoos, tbc ZuDilavesh of the Per-inris, and the Scriptures of' the Chrislian.. The Ko rail i llic ino-t PMMIl oTtbeoe, datiiij: kbont the mvciiiIi cciitiirv altor ('hrisi. li a ountxmthl ni' i Iriiin Mil ami the New Testament, the Talmud, ami I ha (iospel ol St. liaroahaN. Tlie Hddas of t lie ScaiKlinBvians werc tir-t pubflsned in (be Inurtoenth contury. The f'itikcs ol' tlie liinidhi-tN COBtaia sulilinic BOnfa, and pure aspirations, snd theiraufhor livoií and iliod in the sixth eooMiry belbre Christ. Thore notlríriK of excellence in ihc-p booka not found in t lio Hilile. Tin - writings of the Chinese are callcd the Kive Kinj?s, the won] " King " meaninK web ol' cloth. They eontain the best -avinn of'the -age.s ou the ilulio of lile. '1'hcsc yings oMBOt lie traeed forikn bok t han e](Ten hundred yeai" lutore Christ. The thrce ''ilas aro T lio tnost anoient bnnks of tbe [liodon? ; and they are Mieved lo date not hcyond eleven hundred ye'ars he Core Chriat. The Zondavexta ot'the PenfauMM the reatcst of taered bookn next to our Bi ble. Zoroaster, wfiose -a.vitig it contatos, was liorn in the twell'th eentury B. C. MoaM lived and wrotc the Pentateueh fit' teen htimlrcil yiMnbefoi ('hrit, thcref'ore that portiun of 'iur BiMÉ ihl leastJhree hundred yean older tlian thc ni"t tnoient of saèred (rrrtiugs, Uartley Campbell is aeeused of' writitig four jilays íq one year. Quite a literary leal ; but ür. Warren, it uiay be renienibered, wrote "TenThousand a Year."-