The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-20

Ny friend says Christianity has gone
forth and conquered the world.
Why is it then that 100000 of the
human race to-day have never heard OF
Christ; have never heard of the story
of the cross2 The followers of Budaha
outnumber Christianity by long odds.
object to the hypothesis that the
Christian religion is of divine origin.
1t is blending of the true and the
erroneous. We should separate the
good from the bad. broaden our minds
and elevate our intellects.
nR. BRApEN
followed according to the programme.
I accept that as divince which presen
itself to Us as divine; that as human
which presents itself to US as human.
He asserts that we can find in ali other
religions all that which is found IN
Christianity. This is an assertiOn-and
that is all there is of it. If the RELIGION
of Buddah YVES as good as Christi, nifty.
why has it not made the same progress?
You can't accomplish Christianity by
machinery. He says Christianity does
not cure evils. If all men had lived as
Jesus did, evil would not exist in the
land. Christianity was given to the
| world just as soon as man was ready to
receive it. Hs might just as well ask
why a child did not receive all its edu-
cation at once. One is just as sensible
as the other. Christianity had
made progress long before the
reign of Constantine. Christianity
gave the world all those great
moral truths that elevate mankind
and the question is what would be the
result if it were accepted by all men.
Christianity controls seven Fights Of
the world, and its aggressive power is
constantly turning over system. He
speaks OF what Mohamied has accom-
plishsd-a man who gathered cut
threats around him and went forth
and conquered by the sword-who
spread ruin and destruction in his
path And this man is compared to
Jesus of Nazareth! Human elevation
and progress has only been accom-
plished by Christianity and its great
precepts. Jesus was no myth manu-
featured by universal desire. The mis-
sion of Israel was to give to the world
good and pure religion. Jesus was
| unselish in his career and character
and was perfect illustration of meek
ness. He was free from all vices and
his teachings we're universal trnths.
The mightiest intelligence to-day can do
no more than love God with all his
might and mind and love his neighbor
as himself. The teachings of Jesus can
be found in all the religious systems of
the world. The greatest truths of
Christianity are just as apple
able to the great intellect as
to the smallest. Born as Jesus was
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out associates, by his purity he won his
way, overcoming all In spite of all
the obstacles his teachings spread, and
lectual and other great systems of The
world. 1t is the great force-the only
aggressive and progressive religion :.
The work of the uneducated carpenter
Of Nazareth, without human aid, is one
of the greatest miracles of the world-it
was the miracle of miracles, if it were
not divine. Jesus was not an en-
thusiast; he was level headed and
clear. It matters not what progress
the world may make, Jesus will ever
| stand out as the great central figure.
His system and his reli. .ion meets the
highest want of the human soul. 1t is
a progressive religion and it is going on
to conquer the world. Christianity is
the religion of truth; if men accspled
it in its entirety it would lift the world
at greater speed. In everything it
meets the wants of the human intel
lect. 1t lays a proper basis for human
society In saying tnat. purity. truth
and virtue should be carried out. @sIt
also gives the proper incentive for self
loving, ssIf-sacri6ce. If all men lived
as Jesus lived, it Eeuld Danish the
world of sin.
closed the discussion of the evening.
Ny opponent, said he, on the opening
has said considerable about assertions
If you will think for moment you vii
learn that the entire gist of his re-
marks is that Christianity has done
this, Christianity has done that. He
has asserted simply that and nothing
more. But he has given reasons for
nothing. I'll show you what Christian
ity has done. I accept the statement
that Ohristianitv is the religion of the
Bible-the whole Bible. My friend says
man is q religious being. Suppose he
lis. That does not necessarily imply
that he is Christian. He says religion
is universal. say it is not. do not
rare if they do affirm the existence of Q
God. am not going TO do that. But
he does not give Us any proof of any
thing that he has asserted. He, says
Christianity is q great fact. If he had
said the profession of christianity was
q great fact, it would !. have
been true. He says that if all PEG pie
lived as Jesus did, We would have been
all right, and say that Christianity
did not and cannot inspire them to do
it. 1t is not what it might do it is what
it has done. Does he mean to say that
he knows when the Bible was written
where it wss written and by whom
Assertion is one thing, proof is another.
l admire Christ. think there were
many noble traits in his character, but
i 1 do not admire the tradition with
which he has been clothed. He says a
great deal about the perfection of
Christ. l ask him when he goes to his
hotel to night. to draw picture of all
he can conceive Christ TO have been.
Then put it away. Go to itagsin at the
end of six months, and if he cannot i'm
prove on it at the end of that time. it
will be because he has been asleep. 1t
is said that Christ is all powerful. You
have two Christs Christ THE
gentle, Christ the severe: the Christ
who said suffer little children
to come unto me-" and the Christ who
said: He that denieth nae, hlm will |