is more likely that many of the representatives were instructed by their congregations to nail a text which had often been embarrassing to the churches and that, m spite of their proclamation (which has of course, been much misunderstood) about "producing an instrument of Love to be played in all ways, the delegates were careful not to produce a book that m any way expressed the idea of love as it is secularly regarded It may be necessary m this connection, also to remind those who GRANGE CATHOLIC BIBLE 407 ORANGE CATHOLIC BIBLE know such religions as the Cathloa Church of Erzuhe and the Vatsyayana Evangelicals only by their names that there ts a great difference in religious matters between professions and practices The most difficult work of harmonization may be seen m the production of Gospel, the first diatessaron to establish itself beyond competition from the four evangelists, who now became relegated to mere names and symbols The historical scholarship behind this attempt to establish the life of Jesus on a firm, incontrovertible basis was immense, but it had an effect m its context mat may or may not have been well calculated by the C E T It reduced the life of Jesus to one among several lives of saints and prophets and servants of God Clearly the Maomethic faction m the C E T had much to do with creating this impression, which wjs certainly in line with the C E T claim to dispossess all disputant religions of tbe idea that they might have a uniquely valuable revelation When they saw the effect of this claim in cold pnnt, however, it is noteworthy that the Sumslamic faiths weie as shocked as the others by what their representatives had perpetrated in their names All the historical books of Judaeo-Chnstian scripture were harmonized as far as possible (if not farther) with the Quran The legal books were augmented by the Tawrah, Quran, Confucian traditions, while the wisdom literature of Proverbs was assimilated to Taoist and Socratic dicta, at least The pure Quran was represented in the O C Bible by &e books of Saan and Kaluna, and the important Sort text should also be mentioned here, although it is suspected that this was m part augmented bj the C E T themselves who numbered some well-published poets among mem The Masnavi and Tradi tions are other books that seem largely Islamic in composition Among the Hindu and Buddhist traditions may be placed the following books Upani-shads, Vedas, Puranas, Gita, Sutra, Bod-hisatvara, Avatar a, while the books of Roan Answers, Ohashi, Hui Neng Mid Tao may be ascribed rather to the Zensunoi traditions From other ancient sources, tome the books of Analects and Pahlavi, while the books ot Arran, Blake Skul Visions and Revelations are believed to be more recent m origin, and the book of Hymns is both ancient and modern A controversial but most helpful feature of the 0 C Bible is its addition to the canonical scriptures of the books of Hoi) Lives and Testimonies, without which