Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-16
Shall the W hole
Wor1dBe Christian
Or P a G an?
az BISHOP WARREN A, cANDLEn

A Mehammedan writer, who prints an
article in 1.-The Far East" of Toxic, ia
pan, is authority for an interesting bit
or information concerning the Emperor
William of Germany. He says, with ref
erence to the words of the emperor when
the Turco- German alliance was arranged
in 1898: -
"The KAISER then explained to our
sultan that in the near future his peo-
pie would proclaim Mohammed as the
prophet Of Allah. The kaiser actually
told our sultan:
=" Your majesty knows that our great
est philosopher is Ernest Haeckel, who
breaches the doctrine of monism-the
real monotheism. The German people
will soon discard the idea of the Trim
Fifty; then the seeming difference between
our religion and the precepts of the Ko-
ran will disappear. | know that the Mo-
hammedan world accepts Christ as a
prophet, and before long our people will
Iacknowledge that Mohammed also was
a prophet, and the latest"
We can not know if this writer cor
rectIy quotes the kaiser. but it is clear
that he perceives the points of agree
ment between Mohammedanism and the
philosophy and theology which has
been current in Germany during recent
years. ..>.t
Mohammedanism is a system of Uni
tartan belief; it scouts the idea of a
Trinity and has no place for an atoning
Saviour. 1t is fatalistic, and so also is
the materialism of Ernst Haeckel and
other German philosophers. 1t will fight
for its beliefs, and in this particular
it differs from the spirit of a certain
pulpy tolerantism that is widely prev
alent in our own and some other NOM
inally Christian lands. Herein is a mat
ter of Importance.
Mohammedanism and other anti
Christian religions are militant and ex-
elusive If they should ever become
missionary in their methods, they would
be aggressive forces with which the
Christian world would have to reckon
very seriously, and no half hearted form
of Christianity could withstand them.
only a robust Christianity, with definite
beliefs, profound convictions, and cour-
iageous conservation could stand against
them.
Well. all lands are now close together
through the forces of the modern means
of transportation and communication.
Constantinople is for all practical pur-
poses nearer to New York now than
was New Orleans when President Jeffer-
son made the LOUISIANA PurcnaSe, ana
Pekin is nearer to Washington than was
San Francisco ? when President Polk
made war on Mexico in 1S47. All the
nations are nigh neighbors, and it is
evident that the world must soon be
all Christian or all heather.
We are entering upon a period when
christianity must cover the whole earth
or become corrupted in the earth by all
manner of matchmaking concessions to
pagan faiths. 1t can not be otherwise.
It is a conquest. or a compromise which
confronts the Christian world.
Al such a time liberalistic theology
and loose ethics are most dangerous;
they can offer no effective resistance
to the hoary religions of the pagan
world. Evang elical Christianity alone
can face such a situation.
1t is lamentable that a majority of
the $4,000 students from Oriental lands
who are now in American colleges and
universities are enrolled in institutions
of learning in which the divinity of
Christ is as fatty denied as it is by the
Mohammedans of Constantinople. What
must be the effect on the heather world
when these multiplied thousands of