THE FELLOWSHIP OF FAITHS BY ALFRED W. MARTIN SELECTIONS FROM THE WORLD'S GREAT RELIGIONS TOGETHER WITH FOREWORDS BY Rabindranath Tagore Mahatma Gandhi Swami Paramananda John Haynes Holmes NEW YORK ROLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY FOR THE FELLOWSHIP OF FAITHS COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY ROLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY All rights reserved under International American Copyright Union, 1910 COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY ROLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY Under the International Copyright Union (Berne) PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTRODUCTION FIRST a word as to the sources from which the quotations of this anthology have been drawn. Each of the seven extant great religions has its "sacred scriptures," and it is from these that most of the selections have been taken. The Hindu "Vedas," "Upanishads," "Puranas"; the Buddhist "Pitakas"; the Zoroastrian "Avesta"; the Confucian "Kings" and "Books"; the Jewish "Old Testament" and the "Apocrypha"; the Christian "New Testament"; the Mohammedan "Koran"-these represent the chief repositories of religion and ethics in the great religions of the world. The quotations borrowed from the long-extinct Egyptian religion are to be found, for the most part, in the "Book of the Dead," (ed. Budge) the "Precepts" of Ptah-hotep, who was governor of Memphis about 3500 B.C., and the "Maxims of Ani," who flourished in the fifteenth century before our era, a body of sacred literature preserved in papyri. The ancient Greeks and Romans had no sacred scriptures to invest doctrine and cult with the stamp of authority. The priesthoods conserved the traditional forms of religion but pos |