The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-11
PADEN TALKS OF
FALSE PROPHETS
uofers TO Dowie as Such and
Traces Origin of Moham-
mechanism.
4 POWER TO RECKON WITH
.,,uoMET NOW HAS ABOUT
!" 100000, 900 FOLLOWERS

Rev W NJ. Paden last night
in hsd a notable sermon in the First
.sr,erian church. DR.. Paden took Tor
,,b,ect the difference between Mo-
De .esanisrn and Christianity. He be-
hsn' 18th a brief review of The former
sa.on and closed with a summing up
-. essential. differences in the two
- The sermon was in part as fol-
lows:
's.st surprises He forewarned them
NAT they could be forearmed, among
..'ile~snder DOwie who died ON Saturday
Ais-ninq was one of these. and there are
nv others both in this country and
~, NJ it, and in other ages there nave
GU many more Perhaps one OF the most
v.e.,inenf of these was Mahomet- The
PsHess of many Of the others was as
ssossing compared to the success he
made. p.t;.s
"a, tbs present time there are 10000
a. followers Of Mohammfdanism in the
-rorld. or abOut 10 per cent of the en-
i've population of the ehrth. Millions
~ the deYotees of this religion are 70
NJ found all over Asia inS every country
with the exception of sam. Corea and
Iapsn. Three-quarters OF The population
~ Africa are followers of this creed,
and ID is perhaps a significant fact that
If is the dominant creed in the land in
sbich Christ died and Paul preached.
Within one hundred years of his death
tbe followers of Mahomet had subjected
cnsin. Later they were driven out and
they then gained control Of all OF south
srn France In 1853 they took the an
Gent capital OF Christianity, CONSTANT
nonle and even to this day the natural
chiid Of the Turk nests in the ancient city
and gorges himself on the carcass of Asia
Nchemmedanism today is a power to be
reekoned with. a real power in the world.
Mahomet's Career.
,Mahomet the prophet. as his follow
ers call him, was born $50 years after
the birth of Christ. He became an or
pbsn az the age of 6 and was taken in
charge by an uncle and made the keeper
OF the latter's clocks. At a he became
The travelling agent of a rich widow,
whom he afterwsrd married against he
will of her father. The marriage was
solemnized in the presence, Of the father
after he had been drugged into insensi-
bihty with VINE.
'Nahomet was a young man of studi-
our inclinations and for some time he de-
voted a great deal of study 10 the Serl-
Gus things of life. At the age of 40 he
God TO be his prophet on earth, and from
this grew the religion which the world
TO-DAY knows as Mohammedanism. His
wife was his first convert and he re-
NAMED faithful to her up to the time
of her death. After that he had fifteen
wives
ForcefuI Personality.
In So he moved from Mecca, his orig
inal home. 10 Medina. which he speed
lily converted TO his views, Then came
the conquest of Arabia. and at the time
Of his death, in e., the subsection of
-,
under way.
In speaking of the character of the
man as, a factor in the success of his
teaching. it is granted that he was ca
pabie Coarse and crude as his methods
probably were. he was vet a man of force
ful personality and for time his sue
cess as a leader was marked. He utilized
the good and the bad in his followers,
and was ready at any time to take adj
vantage of either The central feature
in the religion of the Mohammedan is the
phrase by means of which he begins each
and every prayer and which at times it.
self does duty as prayer:
God is great There is no god but
God. and Mahomet is his prophet.
"A combination of an eternal truth and
an everlasting lie. True as TO their being
no god but God. but false utterly as to
Mahomet being his prophet.
The Koran.
The MusseIman regards his Koran as
the final will of God. just as the Chris
tan does his Bible but the two creeds
are separate and distinct and cannot be
recOnciled. The Koran is about as large
as the New Testament It consists of III
chapters. the shorter and earlier verses
being placed at the back. 80 that in or
der TO obtain a comprehensive idea u
thc WOrk II is necessary 10 read il back
wards. IL contains references to the
works Of both the Old and New Tesla
ments. and 10 several of the more prom
lnent biblical characters, but these are
all hopelessly mixed.
Revelations formed an important parl
OF the religion and il was quite possible
10 have revelations and special revela-
tons TO cover almost any contingency
which might arise. On account of the
early Arabic language in which il is writ
ten and the flOWery style of Language
used, there have been few TRANSACTIONS
made, and, sh0Tn OF all its flights OF fan
ey and poetic rhapSodies. ii Is a very
commonplace and embarrassing book"
Every pure food law that is passed j:
indirect commentator of MOUNT