A complete, graphic and comparative history of the many strange beliefs, superstitious practices, domestic peculiarities, sacred writings, systems of philosophy, legends and traditions, customs and habits of mankind throughout the world, ancient and modern. This dark and mystic picture strikingly compared with the beauty and purity of revealed religion, the whole forming the fascinating story of the world’s worship from the birth of man to the present day. The whole profusely illustrated from authentic and trustworthy sources. Contents: the world’s first worship; whence came the many gods and idols? sacred and heathen traditions; the subject in a nutshell; the land of the sphinx; the chaldeans; the Jews; Greece; Rome; our ancestors; India; Hindu temples, idols and worship; Hindu sacred books, fairy stories and fireside tales; Japan; popular gods and shrines of Shintoism; the dark continent; the aborigines of America; the islands of the sea; the karens and their traditions; the fire-worshippers; china and her philosophers; the taoist sacred books and gods; Confucius and the classics; Confucian temples and worship; home-life under Confucianism; Buddha the light of Asia; the Buddhist bible, the three baskets and its teachings; the growth of Buddhism-the Buddhist order of mendicants; India and Ceylon; Burmah; Siam; thibet; China; Japan; Mohammedanism; Mohammedan mosques and worship; and winning the world to the worship of the one god.