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11198Finally, the third question,"Was the Qoran, the word of God, created or not?"
11198In the Qoran, God says,"Hast thou, Jesus, said to men, Regard me and my mother as Gods by the side of God?"
11198May not as much be said of Christianity?
11198Who then could bring to the Arabs the glad tidings which should guide them to the happy fields of Paradise?
17213How could Mohammed Towfik''s necessity to Islam be reconciled to his necessity to Europe?
17213How indeed should it be otherwise when we look back on history?
17213What Christian missionary takes a negress to wife or sits with the negro wholly as an equal at meat?
17213What would be his line of action to secure Mahommedan acceptance?
17213Where should he fix his capital, and on what arms should he rely?
17213Who shall fix the term of its power, and say that it can not renew itself and live?
17213Whose flag should he display?
22337Their death is eternal, why pray for them?
22337At each blow inflicted by the redoubtable follower of the Prophet, Remain cried out,"Do you then wish to kill me?"
22337Does a Mohammedan suffer by calamity?
22337How, then, can we give alms?
22337How, then, can we make the prescribed ablutions?
22337Is he plundered or ruined?
22337The fast of Ramadan is a useless command to persons who fast all the year round; and, if God be everywhere, why should we go to Mecca to adore him?"
22337Who is not familiar with the Alif lita wa lilin, or the thousand and one tales, commonly known as the Arabian Nights''Entertainment?
22337{ 256} Indeed, what superstitious, enthusiastic people has ever neglected these?
10163But did Mohammed himself come to these conclusions in the last part of his life?
10163How, then, are we to explain the starting- point of it all-- Mohammed''s sense of vocation?
10163Is it to be supposed, he asks, that a religion as ridiculous as the Islâm described by Christian authors should have found millions of devotees?
10163Must this monarchy be continued after Allah''s mouthpiece had ceased to exist?
10163This was to be expected; had not Mohammed from the very beginning referred to the"people of the Book"as"those who know"?
10163To which he cuttingly replied"And ye, are ye canonists of the better, the ancient time?"
10163Was Mohammed conscious of the universality of his mission?
10163Was it a disease of the spirit, a kind of madness?
10163[ 2] Through whose mouth?
21512Did I?
21512Yes God knows everything but what do you say of your hope?
21512Are there any remains of Persia''s ancient beauty and grandeur?
21512But the question arose, Where is the man qualified for the work, who can overcome the difficulties?
21512Have the laws of the Medes and Persians undergone no change?
21512I have been asked questions like these: Is there a solid foundation established by missions in Persia?
21512If mothers were asked to send their girls, they asked,"What is the use?
21512Is it as large as the state of Michigan?
21512Is the king still absolute as in ancient times?
21512The writer has often asked of Mohammedans:"Have you any hope of heaven?"
21512Those who are interested in politics and government, have asked: Is modern Persia a province of Turkey?
21512Were they awakened to their spiritual condition?
21512What are some of the fruits of our mission work over there?
21512What are some of the temporal improvements?
21512What changes have taken place?
21512What has the gospel done?
21512When he was dying in the arms of Ayesha, Omar asked him:"Prophet where do you wish us to bury you?"
21512Who was once born in the East, Who preached and was crucified in the East, When wilt thou again visit the East?
16996How can that be?
16996Was it cold water,they asked,"that was brought unto thee?"
16996[ 79][ Sidenote: Is Islam suitable for any nation?] 16996 An error in the pronunciation of the mystic text might bring destruction on the worshiper; what could he do but lean upon the priest? 16996 Could conceptions of divinity so incongruous co- exist? 16996 Disliked and denied they may be; but forgotten? 16996 How could these be the thoughts, or those the expressions, of the imperfectly civilized shepherds of the Panjab? 16996 How far, in fact, did there exist inducements or hinderances to its adoption inherent in the religion itself? 16996 How is the marvel to be explained? 16996 How is this great falling- off to be explained? 16996 However desirable freedom might be, slavery was not inconsistent with the Christian profession:Art thou called being a servant?
16996It is a solemn question, Had he said it when his career was ended?
16996Need we say how gloriously rich the Gospel is in having in the character of Christ the realized ideal of every possible excellence?
16996Now what is Christianity?
16996Say, now, which are the more worthy to be called martyrs, these, or thy fellows that fall fighting for the world and the power thereof?
16996What could explain it?
16996Where then is our merit?
16996Wherefore wast not thou slain before him?
16996Which bears the impress of man''s hand, and which that of Him who"is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working?"
16996and which the artificial imitation?
26981Papers?
26981Was the poor little beggar hit?
26981Who fired that gun? 26981 Apart from the safety of white colonists in Africa, is the welfare of African negroes beneath the consideration of a free- born American? 26981 Are other people''s spiritual affairs of no account, or do we arrogate to ourselves a monopoly of such matters? 26981 As one of the more intelligent remarked,If the Holy Places are really in danger, what are we doing down this way?"
26981Can there be any more damning indictment of such a system?
26981Could there be any more glaring example of the cart before the horse?
26981Do proselytising missionaries in the Islamic field ever sit down and think what they are really trying to do?
26981Does a dog wag his tail or the tail wag the dog?
26981Does it even try?
26981Does the social ostracism of a human being, the damnation of his folk and the salvation of none but a remnant of mankind mean anything to them?
26981How should we like Christianity to be judged by the public behaviour of certain classes in London or other big towns?
26981If so, why does he( or she) subscribe so liberally to support missions in Africa?
26981Is Japan hopelessly benighted and devoid of the activities described as the monopoly of Christianity?
26981Is St. Sophia to remain a mosque or revert to its original purpose as a Christian church?
26981Is a cross or the quadrant and compasses the more potent charm?
26981Moreover: Can Christian teaching or preaching pacify the embittered struggle between labour and capital which threatens yet to wreck civilisation?
26981Then the question will arise, What are we going to do about it?
26981This being so, what are these infidel_ pigs_ doing in our mosque?"
26981What does modern surgery, or any other science of accurate manipulation, not owe to modern steel?
26981What is the use of bolstering up a presumably sincere religious movement with these puerile and mischievous statements?
26981Which is the stronger appeal,"Anglican communicant"or"Freemason"?
26981_ Par exemple_, I think myself a better Moslem than any Turk, but what would you?"
15262An non poteritis vos infernalia claustra adire, nisi nos comites habeatis? 15262 How is it, then,"asked the judge,"that he remains a good Moslem, while you have apostatized?"
15262If,he says,"Christ is an adopted Son of God, and Christ is also God, then is God the adopted Son of God?
15262What are thirty barbarians perched upon a rock? 15262 Whither,"they triumphantly asked,[2]"has that bravery of your martyrs vanished?
15262Why,said they,"if your God is the true God, does He not strike terror into the executioners of his saints by some great prodigy?
15262156- 163), refers with disapproval to those(?
1526219,"Why callest thou Me good?
152626--"Is not this the fast that I have chosen?
15262:--"And when God shall say unto Jesus at the last day: O Jesus, son of Mary, hast thou said unto men, Take me and my mother for two Gods, beside God?
15262But when the monk asks leave to depart Abdurrahman says:--"After waiting so long to see one another, shall we part so soon?"
15262For connection of Adoptionism with this, see letter of Adrian to bishops of Spain( 785?).
15262Is it not clear that it was not the Arabs who began persecuting, but we who began preaching?
15262Numquid sine nobis aeterna vos cruciamina non adurent?"
15262Quis Evangelico, quis Prophetico, quis Apostolico ustus tenetur amore?
15262This is apparent from Tarik''s address to his soldiers in the heat of battle:"Moslems, conquerors of Africa, whither would you fly?
15262To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free?"
15262What has become of the rash frenzy with which they courted death?"
15262When the latter was urged to give the word, and have the knot of Christians put to the sword, he said:"Is it not written?
15262Will you let yourselves be trampled on by the Arabs, who look upon you as their slaves?
15262[ 10]?
15262[ 12]?
15262[ 1] However, his ecclesiastical superior[2](?
15262[ 3] Miss Yonge, p. 87, says the Arabs called him Sham Yakub, but what authority has this statement?
15262[ 4][ 1] Sayones(?)
15262[ 5] Meanwhile what was the condition of those Christians who preferred to live in their own homes, but under the Moslem yoke?
15262and why do not the martyrs themselves flash forth into miracles while the crowd is round them?
15262if, on the other hand, they did perform these miracles, why not adduce them in evidence against the detractors?
10738And how many of his countrymen abide with him?
10738And if we die in thy defence, what reward have we?
10738And where is the abiding place of Abu Jahl?
10738Doth Mahomet indeed imagine that it will be this time as in the affair of the Hadramate( slain at Nakhla)? 10738 Is this true?"
10738Verily, we have caused It( the Kuran) to descend on the night of power, And who shall teach thee what the Night of Power is? 10738 What can be done?"
10738What doest thou with unrent garments? 10738 Who will rid me of this pestilence?"
10738Who will show me a way where they will not meet us?
10738Wilt thou hearken to what may be better?
10738Woe unto thee, Abu Sofian; believest thou not that I am the Prophet of God?
10738Wouldst thou not, O Zeid,he asked,"that thou wert once more with thy family, and that Mahomet suffered in thy place?"
10738Abu Bekr was afraid for his master:"We are but two, and if the Kureisch find us unarmed, what chance have we?"
10738At last Mahomet waxed impatient and cried:"Who will give me peace from this Ka''b al''Ashraf?"
10738Ayesha, in all the insolence of beauty, scoffed at Khadijah''s age and lack of comeliness:"Am I not dearer to thee than she was?"
10738But how was this faith wrought out into his conception of himself as the Prophet of his people?
10738CHAPTER I MAHOMET''S BIRTHPLACE"And how many cities were mightier in strength than thy city that hath cast thee forth?"
10738CHAPTER VI SEVERANCE"Do you see Al- Lat and Al- Ozza and Manat the third idol beside?
10738CHAPTER VIII THE FLIGHT TO MEDINA"Knowest thou not that the dominion of the Heavens and of the Earth is God''s?
10738Had he not betrayed her kindred far more terribly upon the bloody slaughter ground of the Koreitza?
10738Instantly above the tumult rose the voice of their leader:"Whither go ye?
10738Knowest thou not the affliction that hath fallen on this thy city?"
10738Mahomet answered:"What can it matter if ye allow me to celebrate my marriage here and make a feast as is the custom?"
10738The angel knocked upon the brazen doors and a voice within cried:"Who art thou, and who is with thee?"
10738The anger of the Prophet was aroused, for were they not presuming to oppose his will and that of Allah, whose instrument he was?
10738What wonder, then, that when the call came to him to take up his mission it became a command to"arise and warn"?
10738Who was to undertake the responsibility of demolishing so holy a place, even if it were only that it might be rebuilt more fittingly?
10738Will ye never understand?"
10738and that ye have neither patron nor helper save God?"
10738he asked her,"even that I should pay thy ransom and take thee myself?"
10738he asked the messenger;"has Mahomet verily slain these men?
20927And say to those who have been given the Scripture, and to the common folk, Do you surrender yourselves unto God? 20927 And the faithful will say,''Are these they who swore by God their(_ Jahda_) utmost oath that they were surely on your side?''
20927But what is this? 20927 How can they who add gods to God be in league with God and His Apostle, save those with whom ye made a league at the sacred temple?
20927How_ can they_? 20927 The angels, when they took the souls of those who had been unjust to their own weal, demanded,''What hath been your state?''
20927Will ye not do battle with a people(_ the Meccans_) who have broken their covenant and aimed to expel your Apostle and attacked you first? 20927 [ 134] Dr. Marcus Dods writes:--"But is Mahommed in no sense a Prophet?
20927Did God command such slaughter of idolaters, as he commanded the destruction of the Canaanites or of the Amalekites?
20927From Ibn Ishak we learn that Mohammad had said with reference to Abú Afak,"Who would rid me of this pestilent fellow?
20927He said,''May it not be that if to fight were ordained you, ye would not fight?''
20927He said,''May it not be that when fighting is ordained you, ye would not fight?''
20927How much is Sir W. Muir in the wrong, who says, that fighting was prescribed on religious grounds?
20927Huweisa cried,"wouldst thou have slain thine own brother at Mahomet''s bidding?"
20927I do not understand why, if such was the case, Khálid did not refer the believers to the so- called"cunning device"of the Koran?
20927Is there no blood in the streets?
20927Then why should the execution be considered a worst act?
20927They replied,''Was not God''s earth broad enough for you to flee away in?''
20927They said,''And why should we not fight in the cause of God, since we are driven forth from our dwellings and our children?''
20927They said,''And why should we not fight in the cause of God, since we are driven forth from our dwellings and our children?''....
20927Wakidi and Ibn Sád do not affirm that Mohammad, being annoyed at her lampoons, said dejectedly,"Who would rid me of that woman?"
20927Where are the bodies of the thousands that have been butchered?
20927Why hast thou forbidden thyself that which God hath made lawful unto thee,[363] out of desire to please thy wives; for God is forgiving and merciful?
20927Will he not trample on them, torture them, revenge himself after his own cruel manner?
20927Will ye dread them?
20927Will you dread them?"]
20927[ Footnote 10:"Will ye not do battle with a people who have broken their covenant and aimed to expel your Apostle and attacked you first?
20927[ Footnote 208: Sir W. Muir writes that"Hishami says, that Mahomet, being vexed by Asma''s verses, said_ publicly_,''Who will rid me of this woman?''"
20927[ Sidenote: When the word Jihád was diverted from its original signification to its figurative meaning of waging religious war?]
20927bring us forth from this City whose inhabitants are oppressors; give us a champion from thy presence; and give us from thy presence a defender?''"
20660''Who shall give life to bones when they are rotten?'' 20660 And did the same right appertain to Abu Bakr, Omar, Osmán and''Ali?"
20660But if you find no direction therein?
20660But what if that fails?
20660Has the Apostle of God taught this to men or has he left them free?
20660How so?
20660If then the Qurán was created, must not the word_ be_ have been created with it?
20660Is He not powerful enough to quicken the dead?
20660Is it not enough for you that your Lord aideth you with three thousand angels sent down from on high?
20660O''Ulamá of the religion, and Muftís of the enlightened Law, what is your opinion in this matter? 20660 Say: Is this, or the_ Garden of Eternity_ which was promised to the God- fearing, best?"
20660Say: who supplieth you from the heavens and the earth? 20660 The infidels will say,''shall we indeed be restored as at first?
20660They will ask thee of the''Hour,''when will be its fixed time? 20660 Think they that we hear not their secrets and their private talk?
20660Thinketh man that we shall not re- unite his bones? 20660 This dogma, then, is without doubt an essential part of religion, insomuch that the latter can not without it be said to be complete?"
20660Was the Apostle of God acquainted with this dogma or not?
20660Wherefore, then, do you desire to impose a belief regarding which the Apostle of God has left men free to think as they please?
20660[ 175] If any one says to him:Wilt thou die in the faith?"
20660''And murder, and adultery, and false witness?''
20660''Dost thou reproach me on a matter, which God wrote in the Bible forty years before creating me?''"
20660''Hast thou then any excuse?''
20660''Who is there?''
20660( 3) The Qurán contains commands and prohibitions; if it is eternal who were commanded and who were admonished?
20660A famous mystic was brought into the presence of the Khalíf Hárún- ur- Rashíd who said to him:"How great is thy abnegation?"
20660A person one day visited Imám Hasan''Askarí( the eleventh Imám) and said:''O son of the Prophet who will be Khalíf and Imám after thee?''
20660And who shall teach thee what the night of power is?
20660And who shall teach thee what the pit( Al- Háwía) is?
20660But if this be the first, there must be a second; what is it?''
20660But what is Súfíism?
20660But what knowledge hast thou of it?
20660By this means they think that they can satisfy their spiritual and temporal needs, From what do they seek this benefit?
20660Dost thou confess that Muhammad is His Apostle?''
20660Doth not man bear in mind that we made him at first, when he was nought?"
20660Each spirit was addressed separately, thus:"Art thou not with thy Lord?"
20660First, that the Imám must be appointed by God, for if this is not the case, why did Abraham say"of my offspring also?"
20660God has declared that Ramazán is a noble month, for is not one of its nights, the Laylut- ul- Qadr, better than a thousand months?
20660Had he not been a follower of Abu Hanífa?
20660Hast thou seen aught terrible?"
20660He also relates the following story:"One knocked at the door of the beloved, and a voice from within said:''Who is there?''
20660His Excellency said:''Dost thou believe that there is no God but God?
20660His Highness then said:''What is this carpet?''
20660I said:''O messenger of God, I repent to God and His Messenger; what fault have I committed that you do not enter?''
20660If any one is asked,"dost thou believe?"
20660If man is free to act, why can he not make at once a human body; why does he need to thank God for grace and faith?
20660Muhammad answered,"Why dost thou say I, I?
20660Muhammad said to her,''Where is God?''
20660Now this doctrine that you desire to spread among the Faithful, has the Apostle taught it, or has he abstained from doing so?"
20660Of all creatures are they the worst?"
20660On appointing him he said:"O Mu''áz, by what rule will you act?"
20660Sháfa''í quoted the verse,"God said_ be, and it was_,"and asked,"Did not God create all things by the word_ be?_"Hafs assented.
20660The Sheikh told me to say to the apparition,''What is your name?''
20660The poet Khusrau says:"Love is the object of my worship, what need have I of Islám?"
20660The scholastics then enquired why, since the Qurán was sent to be a guide and direction to men, were not all its verses muhkam?
20660Then Aqra''bin Hábis, standing up, said:''O Prophet is it to be made every year?''
20660Then said Adam,''Didst thou see in the Bible that Adam disobeyed God?''
20660Thus,"They say,''Who will bring us back?''
20660What became of them?"
20660What has befallen thee?
20660When we have become rotten bones?''
20660Which now is most worthy of credence-- God, when He declares Islám to be complete and perfect, or you when you announce the contrary?"
20660Why dost thou ask me, for the Prophet''s disposition is no other than the Qurán?"
20660after I am dead, shall I in the end be brought forth alive?''
20660after your belief have ye become infidels?
20660and who bringeth forth the living from the dead, and bringeth forth the dead from the living?
20660does a woman give herself away?''
20660dost thou deny this, or have the recording angels treated thee unjustly?''
20660say: will ye inform God of aught in the heavens and in the earth which He knoweth not?"
20660since Thou knowest what awaited him, Thou must have known what awaited me; why then didst Thou act for his advantage and not for mine?
20660was the reply,"what excuse could we give to thy grandfather on the day of resurrection did we abandon thee to the hands of thine enemies?"
20660who hath power over hearing and sight?
20660who ruleth all things?
20660why hast Thou created mankind?''
20660{ 91} Sa''dí in the Bustán says:"Art thou a friend of God?
14867Does the perfect Buddha live on beyond death, or does he not? 14867 I cannot-- will not fight,"he says;"I seek not victory, I seek no kingdom; what shall we do with regal pomp and power?
14867Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?
14867Now, that which is created,he adds,"must of necessity be created by some cause-- but how can we find out the Father and maker of all this universe?
14867[ 26] There is a deep pathos in the question which I have just quoted,How can we find out the Father and maker of all this universe?"
14867''Is Buddhism really older than Christianity, and does it really contain many things which are found in the Bible?''"
14867''Is it really true?''
14867''Why did you not tell us all this before?
14867... Did humanity begin with a coarse fetishism, and thence rise by slow degrees to higher conceptions?
14867Again, the question arises, How can responsibility be transferred from one to another?
14867And how are we to account for their striking similarities?
14867Are not we sons of the mighty Duryodani?
14867But are they?
14867But does conversion mean the same, or anything like the same, thing in each?
14867But how shall the false systems of religions be studied?
14867But the question may be asked,"Do we not admit a similar principle when we speak of a man''s influence as something that survives him?"
14867But what is the evidence found in the legends themselves?
14867But what is the testimony of the great dead religions of the past with respect to a primitive monotheism?
14867But who knows whence his blessings come to him?
14867But_ how_ have these conquests in Central Africa been made?
14867Do the traces of a comparatively pure monotheism first show themselves in the recent periods of idolatry?
14867Do they appear to have risen from polytheism toward simpler and more spiritual forms, or have simple forms been ramified into polytheism?
14867Dost Thou only care for men?
14867Even if change were possible, therefore, how shall the old score be settled?
14867For what else have many excellent members of our faith done?
14867Good men are asking,"Is not such a study a waste of energy, when we are charged with proclaiming the only saving truth?
14867Have they shown an upward or a downward development?
14867Have we forgotten our Rama and Arjun, Yudistar or Bishma or Drona the Wise?
14867How can he be a lover of truth, which is God, if he knows not his beloved under such a disguise?
14867How can there be reconciliation to God, then, without repentance and humiliation?
14867How can we attain unto them?
14867How could Buddhism grow out of such a soil and finally cast its spell over so many peoples?
14867How did the early Church succeed in its great conquest?
14867How is it with the authenticity of Buddhist literature?
14867How is the young missionary, who knows nothing of their systems or the real points of comparison, to deal with such men?
14867How much may we expect to prove from the early history of the non- Christian systems?
14867How shall we account for the similarities above indicated, except on the supposition of a common and a very ancient source?
14867How shall we explain that career?
14867How then did they succeed?
14867How was it that Islam gained its conquests, and what is the secret of that dominion which it still holds?
14867How was such a man to be met?
14867How will the mere philosopher explain this wonderful power of personality over men of all races, if it be not Divine?
14867How, then, shall we draw the line between history and legend?
14867If Krishna is within and without, what is the use of austerities?
14867If Krishna is_ not_ within and without, what is the use of austerities?
14867If Krishna is_ not_ worshipped, what is the use of austerities?
14867In the old churches of the East or on the Continent of Europe, how much of virtual idolatry is there even now?
14867In the receptacle of what was it contained?
14867Is it any wonder that such persons have a warm side toward Buddhism?
14867Is it_ in pari materia_, and if not, is the comparison worth the paper on which it is written?
14867Is not downright earnestness better than any possible knowledge of philosophies and superstitions?"
14867May there not, after all, be danger in the study of false systems?
14867May we not believe that the ideas here expressed had always existed in the minds of the more devout rulers of the empire?
14867Men had begun to ask themselves the great questions of human life and destiny,"Whence am I?
14867Mr. Goldwin Smith, in an able article published in the_ Forum_ of April, 1891, on the question,"Will Morality Survive Faith?"
14867No man sings there,''Shall not my soul be submitted unto God?
14867O Almighty One, hast Thou not power to make us other than we are, that we too may have some part in the blessings of life?"
14867Of what value can heathen asceticism and merit- making be while the heart is still barred and buttressed with self- righteousness?
14867Or Lactantius, or Victorinus, Optatus, Hilary, not to speak of the living, and Greeks innumerable?
14867See we not how richly laden with gold and silver and apparel that most persuasive teacher and most blessed martyr, Cyprian, departed out of Egypt?
14867Stop, O Brahman; why do you engage in austerities?
14867The Bhagavad Gita and the Gospel both enjoin the brotherhood of men, but what are the meanings which they give to this term?
14867The eating of bread is in conformity with the ordinance of God; can one forget that his blessing rests thereupon?...
14867The question"Are ye not of more value than many sparrows?"
14867The question, What is Nirvana?
14867The real question is, what was the_ drift_ of the prophet''s character?
14867Then follow other questions:''Does Buddhism really count more believers than any other religion?''
14867There is recognized no future intervention that can effect a change in the downward drift, and why should a thousand existences prove better than one?
14867Was it enveloped in the gulph profound of water?
14867What are the lessons of the various ethnic traditions?
14867What are their aims, respectively?
14867What could be more horrible than the story just brought down by the messengers who were with Major Festing?
14867What could have produced them?
14867What has become of the tens of thousands of peaceful agriculturists, their wives and their innocent children?
14867What help, what rescue can mere infinitude of time afford, though the transmigrations should number tens of thousands?
14867What human skill could have depicted a character which no ideal of our best modern culture can equal?
14867What is the relation between these two currents?
14867What is this mysterious being of which I am conscious?"
14867What methods were adopted, and with what measures of success?
14867What then enshrouded all the teeming universe?
14867What was the influence of his professed principles on his own life?
14867What were the elements of power which enabled the great sage of China to rear a social and political fabric which has survived for so many centuries?
14867What, then, is Kharma?
14867Where can we point to so easy a conquest as that of Patrick in Ireland, or that of the Monks of Iona among the Picts and Scots?
14867Where did Shankar and great Dayananda arise?
14867Where do violence, meanness, and deception gradually beam forth into benevolence and truth?
14867Where is the system in which such an incident and such a lesson would not be wholly out of place?
14867Wherein, then, consists the unique supremacy of the Christian faith?
14867Who shall change the leopard''s spots or deflect the fatal drift of a human soul?
14867Who would think of quoting"Paradise Lost"in any sober comparison of Biblical truth with the teachings of other religions?
14867Will there not be found perplexing parallels which will shake our trust in the positive and exclusive supremacy of the Christian faith?
14867Without a Daysman how shall we bridge the abyss that lies between?
14867Yet where in all the wide waste of heathen faiths or philosophies is there anything which even remotely resembles the story of the Prodigal?
14867or has perchance some other God made us?
14867what with enjoyments, or with life itself, when we have slaughtered all our kindred here?"