It has been charged that Romanism, in order to make itself acceptable to heathenism, readily appropriates large portions of its religious worship from the latter on its own field. Whether this charge can be substantiated or not, can probably be determined by the statement of a few things common to the religious worship of Buddhism and Roman Catholicism, especially in China, and which the former cannot have borrowed from the latter. In both systems there is the worship of pictures. The Buddhist readily worships the picture of Jesus, knowing his place in the Christian system. Both Buddhists and Romanists pray in an unknown language, the former in Sanskrit, the latter in Latin. Both use candles and incense in worship. Both have purgatories, or places from which souls can be released by the prayers of priests offered for a pecuniary compensation. Both Buddhists and Romanists use rosaries for counting their prayers. Both use "vain repetitions," the substitute of the Buddhist for the "Ave Maria" of the Romanist, being O-me-ti-fuh of the Buddhist, which is sometimes repeated twenty or thirty thousand times a day, and for the repeating of which ten thousand times a person gains one degree of merit. Buddhism and Romanism both hold to works of supererogation—more good works by persons than are required for their own salvation—both maintain the celibacy of priests, and have nuns and nunneries; both adore relics; while Buddhism adores Buddha's bones, it pays them no more adoration than Romanists pay to the alleged wood of the cross, the alleged coat of the Saviour, which is kept in the church at Treves, or hundreds of other relics. Again, priests from India and France both adopt the heathen rites of the Chinese. On a Catholic altar in Shanghai, the dragon, the emblem of China and its State church, is found united with the cross. Both Catholics and Buddhists claim miraculous cures in modern times; both lavish money upon processions; both worship saints; and Mary finds her complete counterpart in Kwankin, the Buddhist goddess of mercy.—Interior.