The Southern herald., 1912-07-26

tens Of reign
great care must be exercised
searching for the points Of conn
less we strive to make them pols.
for the amalgamation of ChristIsu|
with the non-Christian system.
hammed is considered the last q Il
great prophets who inaugurated il
great religious systems. He was hoa
in Mecca about 500 years after CIR
At the age Of twenty-five he marE
a wealthy widow for whom he had 9
ried on business. by caravan, heives
Mecca and Damascus. Later be
gan TO have religious aspirations
on various occasions while in ~
sion in a cave experienced strana
halluclnations that he attributed 81
the influence Of angels. He eonaa
cred himself constituted a propheG !
Gabriel and took up the work Of u
formation. He became bitter agaa
idolatry and opposed some Of the q
conslstencies of his time. HoWsIa
as years went on, he became graspHHf
which caused him to break bis 81
laws and do inconsistent things q
Justify himself in this, he claimed !
had received revelations granting bid
special permission to do them. u
soon took up the sword and became
leader of a band of brigands. At
his death, Abu Bekr took up the Nol7
and began the conquest of Palesll
and Syria. 1t was carried on BY q
successors until Asia Minor and No
Africa, were conquered. They th
attempted to get into Europe threI
Constantinople on the east and ca
on the west. They were driven Me|
which delivered Europe from the 70
of MOhammedanism. The eonqu
then went to the east toward IND
and southwark into the Sudan
Africa.
Mohammedanism is a mixture !
Paganism and Judaism. 1t is strols
ly Monetheistic; teaches absolute p
destination and that only Moslems
saved. Its spirit is ''rule or ruin.
peaceably if there is no opposition
with the iron heel, If necessary, AA
hammed got his idea of God from Z
daism. He took only the attribute I
justice and made a god of Law !
whom he gave absolute soyeregHlE
but attributed to him little interesl !
the veal or woe of the human nl
Since he considered God to be but Y
person, he became very bitter agala
Christianity on the ground that he es
sidered it polytheistic because o.
three persons in the Godhead. ID e
der to account for Christ, the Mons
medans teach that Just before Ut
was crucified, the angel Gabriel !
ranged for some one else, who looAa
like Christ, to be crucified In his plsq
Mohammed in order to secure for .
self divine authority asserted tha.
was the paraclete whom jesus
promised. He considered jesus
mere prophet and inferior to ilila'.' +
He himself being the last o.
prophets Of God. The Mohanms
view Of creation is very much ala
to that found in the Bible. Hohs.z
the creation Of man differed In lnA
is said that God took a lump q g
and broke 1t into two pieces, cIeap
mankind from them both. or ne =
he said, These to heaven and ! s.
not" and of those made from tne
er lump he said, "These to hen =
care not"
Sin to the Mohammedan Is iaF
ferent from sin to the Christiaa
the first place, sin has nothing
with our nature, for man inna
none Of the sinful nature OF =
Second, sins of ignorance afs
counted as wrong doing. Thru
the wilful violation Of known =
considered sin. Their belief IN -
tination and fatalism makes ne
, ture fixed so that salvation In'ss. ~
atonement is not necessary. u,
have they any provision from tp7 Il Il
ent power of sin. To matca
strange teaching regarding 81
Mohammedans have planned 9 " H
full Of sensual indulgences Wnels
expect to rest upon gold COUCH
attended by celestial beings ~
always eating and drinking.
5 The treatment accorded Mon
. dan women is almost as severe z
+ be found under brutal paganla1
1 man may cause his wife to less7
t by saying, "Thou art divorced.
: duty to him is implicit obediens
Q reverential silence in his preseas
( Mohammedan woman's hope o.
Is to have a husband and thus
N to be his attendant