Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — The Ancient Idea of God. [ARTICLE]

The Ancient Idea of God.

A specially Interesting subject occupied the Victoria Institute recently. Mr. T. G. Pinches, of the Oriental Department of the British Museum, describes some results of his examination of the Babylonian tablets. He showed from one of these, of about the period 030 B 0., that the king used the word Gcd as a monotheist would; and even so lar back as 3000 B, C. the tablets bore the same expression in the some sense. Evidence has, indeed, Accumulated of late which tends to show that the Babylonian Pantheon, supposed to include thirteen deities, was really monotheistic In the discussion which followed Mr. Itassam, Maj. Condor, and Canon Glrdlestone took part, and it was pointed out that in the early Egyptian records also there was evidence of a primitive faith in one God. —London Telegraph.