of createò beings and for enlightening them with divine knowledge, affects not the unity of God; and all these apparently diverging paths, which the worship of different deities present lead but to one and the same object. ibid, page 193. “But this opinion respecting the nature of a Supreme Being is not confined to the followers of the Vedanta; for every Hindu of best information is more or less acquainted with it.” Ibid, page 196. “The Almighty, Infinite, Eternal, Incomprehensible, Self-existent Being; he who sees every thing, though never seen; he who is not to be compassed by description, and who is heyond the limits of human conception; he from whom the universal world proceeds; whb is the lord of the universe, and whose work is the universe; he who is the light of all lights, whose name is too sacred to be "pronounced, and whose power is too infinite to be imagined, is Brahma, the one unknown true being, the creator, the preserver; and destroyer of the universe. Under such and innumerable other definitions, is the Deity acknowledged in the Vedas or sacred writings of the Hindus.” “The religion of the Hindu sages as inculcated by the Veda, is the belief in, and worship of, one great and only God–Omnipotent, Omnipresent, of whose attributes he expresses his ideas in the most awful terms. These attributes he conceives are allegorically (and allegorieally only) represented by the three personified powers of Creation, Preservation, and Destruction.” Mythology of the Hindus, by Charles Coleman. “It is true indeed, that the Hindus believe in the unity of Kid. ‘One Brahma, withou; a second,' is a phrase very commonly used by them when conversing on subjects which relate to the nature of God. They believe also that God is almighty, allwise, omnipres;nt, omniscient, and they frequently speak of him as embracing in his government the happiness of the good and the
