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tations have no saving power. But to abandon covetousness and lust, to become free from evil passions, and to give up all hatred and ill-will, that is the right sacrifice and the true worship."[1] But the complete identification of god-service with man-service awaited the exquisite humanity of Jesus' saying—"Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me." Edward Alsworth Ross.

Stanford University, Cal.

  1. Carus, The Gospel of Buddha, chap, ix, v. 21.