An ignorant admiration of the sacred books of the Buddhists and Brahmins has succeeded to the former ignorant and sweeping condemnation of them.

What is now needed is a fair and candid examination and comparison of these systems from reliable sources.
Sec.5.Comparative Theology will furnish a new Class of Evidences in Support of Christianity.
Such an examination, doing full justice to all other religions, acknowledging their partial truth and use, will not depreciate, but exalt the value of Christianity.

It will furnish a new kind of evidence in its favor.

But the usual form of argument may perhaps be changed.
Is Christianity a supernatural or a natural religion?
Is it a religion attested to be from God by miracles?
This has been the great question in evidences for the last century.

The truth and divine origin of Christianity have been made to depend on its supernatural character, and to stand or fall with a certain view of miracles.