Iron County register., 1882-08-17
IRONTON MO, THURSDAY. AUGUST II. 1882.

the system; so that we can discuss /
better by leaving the Saracens out Q
sight. In accounting for its rapid diff
fusion, we must distinguish between
external and internal agencies; or ac
tivitles; between the causes that ca1led
Mohammedanism into existence anG
those which made it effective. And
prominent in the first class of these
we may notice the appointment O
God.
History repeats over and over again
the lesson that God is not Knocked. and
yet,the human family, especially tha,
part of it called the Church, is very
slow to learn this truth. ara
God had said that if His professed
followers apostatized He would pun.
ish them; and He has always kept His
word, and His maintenance of it ran
through the whole thing. He left the
so-called Christian teachers to wander
vainly in their own counsels, 50 that
they could not reason with Saracen
priests. The Christians God was an
obstruction, aud his gospel agnostic,
and neither one worth listening toand
much less worth dying for; 50 the
Christians came out against the Sara
Gems one way and fled before them
seven ways: for the thing was of the
Lord to punish them of their sins;
whilst the Saracens knew their God,
and were strong, and did exploits.
But the appointment of God raised the
punishment from the sin punished.
The Arianism of Osigen was but an
other name for, the Deisfn of Moham-
med. Church historians have noticed
the fact that the Saracen invasion fol-
lowed the track of the Arian heresy,
and have supposed that this was done
to punish it. This is a mistake. The
Saracens followed to obtain the re-
cruits which Arianism had drilled for
them; and close inspection will show
that, in theology, Mohammedanism is
Arianism with sword attached by
statutory enactment. e
The Koran does not wait to prove
that God is God; it trusts 20 the gener-
al consent Of all nations for the accept
ance of that idea, and directs all its en-
|ergies to persuading that Mohammed
lis the Prophet of God. 70 accomplish
this,i it teaches the perfect equality of
all men before God, and leaves to In
ference their entire equality with each
other in rights and privileges. So that
all men have equal rights to all things;
80 that plunder, theft and highway
robbery, even when accompanied by
murder, are the mode of a right rem
dered necessary by the refractory dis
position of other people. The Saracens
acted out on this idea, and SO gave
license to all who lived by violence,
and so drew them to their standard.
The Koran resolves everything into
the sovereignty of God, and SO releases
men from all responsibility to God for
their actions, but attaches a Heaven
and He'll to its system, to which men
are assigned according to their treat
ment of Mohammed. So 1t begins by
asserting that he is the Prophet of God,
and, before it is through, makes Him
God Himself! In this particular its
teaching is q horrible caricature on
John the 5th chapter and I'D verse.
It rejects Mediator, and teaches
salvation by works, which consist in
giving to the Church the 'one-fifth of
all their plumber, being circumcised,
feasting and fasting at stated periods,
uttering rhapsodical prayers, and being
kind to their parents, the old, the or
phan, and the poor, and abstaining
from usury, pork, wine and strongdrink;
and to them who obey in these particu-
lars, and propagate their religion by
the sword, it promises Heaven which
is merely firstrclass bawdy house.
Nowonder:.M r:.Moham mechanism spreads
rapidly when it gathers to its aid ev-
that is vile in human nature,
and does it in the name of religion, land
the alleged sanction of God.
Our next article will be on the pres
ent status Of Mohammedanisrn.
T.C.