iii doctrine of a future state is also superior to that of other religions in as much as it maintains higher states of existence in consonance to the law of progress prevalent in nature, - VIIf. Tha* liiudooism is preminently tolerant to ail other religions and believes that each man will obtain salvation if he follows his own religion. IX. That Ilindooism maintains inferior stages of religious belief in its own bosolo in harmony with the nature of tuan who cannot but pass through reveral stages of religious development before being able 'to grasp the Supreme Being. X. That the Hindoo maintains that religion should guide every action of life. It has beણા truly said “ that the Ilindoo eats, dinks and sleeps religiously.” XI, 'f'hat the Hiudoo Religion is of a \ ery coinplehensive oharacter as grasping within its embrace all human kilowledge, all civil polity, and all domestic economy, impenetrating every concern of human life with the sublime influence of religion. # XII. The extaeute autiquity of the Hindoo Religion as existing from before the rise of history, thereby showing that there is, much in it which can secure a permanent hold over the Ilind of man. The lecturer then proceeded to show the especial excellence of Gyan Kanda or the superior portion of Ilindooism as testified K. (deas of the nature of God and of revelation, its disbelief in incarnation and mediation, its rejection of all ritual observances, the stress which it lays on Dhyan or the contemplation of God as transcending the inferior officks of prayer aud praise, and its having no appointed titue or place of worship aud recognising no pilgrimages to distant shrines, The lecturer then showed that Brahmo Dharma is the highest developed form of Hindooism, aird as such is not distinct from it though it is at the same time entirely catholic in its character. The lecturer then said we need not borrow any thing from other religious The Hindoo Religion contains like the Ocean that washes the shores of India gums without number and will never perish as long as that country exists. The leciuter concluded with an eloquent exhortation to the audience not to leave of the uaine of Hindoo which is connected with a thousand Sacred and foud ashociations, (Froin the Times.) A lecture, the mere title of which will startle a great many people in England, was dolivered in Calcutta last week by the minister of the Adi Samaj, the elder body of the Brahmos, * * * The leaders of this section of the Brahmos are a highly respectable body of men, well-educatod, generally :alta and thuughtful and thoroughly respected by all classes us their ountrymen. The minister of this body startled Calcutta, at least the religious
