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TIF UNKNOWN LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST. 119 privations which they have endured here below, receive eternal happiness and enjoy a repose which nothing can disturb.*
Jesus sojourned six years among the Buddhists, where he found the principle of monotheism still in its purity. Having attained the age of twenty-six years, he remembered his native land which was under the heavy: oppression of foreigners. lle therefore resolved to return thcre. On his journey he preached in many countries against idolatry, human sacrifices and religious crrors, exhorting the people to recognize and worship Ciod, the Fatlicr of all beings whom He loved equally, the masters as well as the slaves, for they are all His children, to whom He has given his beautiful universe as a common heritage. The sermons of Jesus often produced a deep impression upon the people through whose country he journeyed, exposed to all sorts of dangers instigated against him by the clergy, but prolected by the idolators who had only the day before offered their children as sacrifices to their idols.
While crossing Persia, Jesus almost caused a revolt uong the worshipers of the doctrine of Zoroaster. The priests, scaring the vengeance of the people, darca not assassinate him; they resorted to stratagem and drove him from the city at night, boping that the fierce beasts would devour him, but Jesus escaped this peril and arrived sale and sound in the country of Isracl.
It is to be remarked here that the Orientals sometimes so picturesque in the midst of their miscrics and the ocean of corruption in which they have sunk under the constant influences of their priests and teachers,
*This, in purport is true, about the Thibetan Buddhism, which differs in many respects from the Southern Buddhism.Translator.
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