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MAHOMET OR CHRIST.
(Continued from Page 15
Decadent Christianity, It was from decadent Christen- dom that Mohammed got many of his idens. The pages of the Koran bear silent testimony that the only way by which the Christianity” of his time and place reached the Prophet was through heretiens secta which denied the divinity of Christ and Hin redemption work, and through the works known as the false Gospels. False Christianity was one of the roots from which Islam sprang: it is therefore not surprising that we see in it points of similarity with the misquided apology for Christianity which is still met with to-day,
How Would a Moslem View It.
Oaristian and Moslem Saints.
miculed M
Such a summary ng hayo Certain mystical/ Inmedans deliberately developed sketched is obviously most inade-
• “Way," a -molkod by which the quate, and a Moslem would regard iden of love could be increased it is unfair; but at least he would in their thought of Allah. But agree with me in this that Islam although some of these have risen and Christianity are irreconcilable. to great Saintliness there is still The Moulem and the Christian hold a profound difference between them different views of God and man, and the Saints of Christendom, be they cannot both he right. Of enuse the Moslem, however mystical, will have nothing of the cross of course the true Christian is glad Christ and the patient suffering to see so much of truth in Islam, love of God which it represents, and there is no doubt that Chris- Now the true Christian, loyal s he is to Christ, believes that Love tendem, when it has allowed. ítarlf is the ultimate power; that in the to become unfaithful to its inherit- long run Lave is triumphant. He ance, has a good deal to learn from sees the sufferings which love meets and lins to endure in the affairs alam. And yet we are persuaded of mon, he realiens that often and that wo have learnt from our Lord often it seems to fail, but his mind Jesus Christ a higher conception goes inck to Calvary and the empty tomb, and inspite of all the ap- of God and a higher ideal of human, parent failure of Love he persists life and conduct than Mohammed in believing that there is in the has to offer. end no power so strong as Love, Christ, the Man of Sorrows, ne quainted with grief, is also the triumphant Victor, and He is so because He is one with the Eternal God. God in Love.
But just because our Christian ideals are higher, just because we have been trusted with a greater Mohammed had, to begin with,
anensure of trath, our responsibility very considerable respect for both
is the heavier. When the Church falls from its high Estate it can Jews and Christians; in fact it was the realisation of the difference believe that the ultimate reality is well be condeumed and despised tween these people with their deve-Zore, and multitude who hold by Islam. When the Moslem, The Christian rigidly keeping his prescribed rutes loped theology and morality, and that it is over.
It will be obvious that thore will inevitably be a va difference be tween à multitude of men who be
his Arab fellow-countrymen with and his God are Son and Father of conduct, and persistently pray-1
their very primitive faiths that set him thinking of his life's work. The strong Monotheism of Judaism np pealed to him greatly, and gave rise to the declarations which still rings on to-day—" There is no God but God !"
bound together by the, chain of mutual love; the Moslem and his God and Slave aml Potentate, only related to each other by Will on the one hand and fear and respect on the other. Such a statement as I have just made is too sweeping to be perfectly accurate, but it is generally speaking true.
Power Before Lov
ing his five times a day, sees the nominal Christian disregarding his law of love for God and man and neglecting his place of worship he may well any" My religion is better than his."
The Essence of true Christianity is Spirit. It is first a spiritual re- Iationship with a God of love, and second a life of love inspired by that spiritual relationship.
The result of two such fundn- mentally different conceptions nee Influence of Heretical Christians.
what one would expect. But they On the other hand, it seems to are made still more certain by Love in its other considerations have been to a large extent the
true sense is essentially moral. I
Danger of Black Christianity, horetient Christians whom he met say in its true sense "bicciuec
Now this is true of much that that influenced his conception of only true love is moral. Love in
this sense is made up of unselfish passes for Christianity to day. I the nature and character of that ness, self-sacrifice, genuine concern, is true that we are out to fight in one' God.
These faulty Christiana regneet, etc.. These are the qualitics Lent. Many who profess them. were propounding wrong teaching which we speak of as moral. If the selves Christian hold a view of God ultimate rentity, if God is Perfect quite unlike that actually taught about Christ caused by preconcep-Love, then e le essentially a Moral by Christ. They do not believe that tions about the nature of God. Reing: and since human life can love is the ultimate reality, they Especially this applied to their obviously. only be what it is intend-still in fact worship a God of power, thoughts about the death of Christ.ed to be by correspondence with not of love. They base their lives. ultimats reality, it is evident that in consequenes on the belief that It seemed to them impossible that man's belief in God of Love will might is right, that those things God should suffer, therefore if entail a morality of life which cor-which give material power, like Christ actually suffered He could regnands with the morality of love, riches and position, are to be A Christian is therefore pledged to sought pre-eminently. The idens of not have been divine; if he were love his God and his fellowmen. self-sacrifice and unselfishness, of divine He could not have died as
genuine concern and respect for all one's fellowmen, ideas which be reparted, therefore, the individual
A Moslem.
em is under no such oblong to the morality of love, these who died on the Cross cannot have ligation. How can he he! He bewe give lip-service to; but some- Leen the Christ, but a substitute: Lieves that Power, and Will. are times little more. The suffering, and so on. Christ was denuded of the ultimate reality. But Power self-giving Christ is not really wor His peculiar glory.
and Will are in themselves an shipped by many Christians." These notions apparently fitted moral. Power may stand for the Again, as the Moslem sets up an in with Mohammed's preconceptions insensitive, mechanical fores of an idea for human life and character and strengthened his views of the engine, while Will in itself is than that of Christ, so do we. character of God. There could only naturally cold and hard, Neither For how many of us is not the ideal by ong God. Hò must be Almighty, of them has any moral connotations.
"the English Gentleman," or "the Omnificient, and absolutely above and the civilised world bas come Public School standard," or merely the possibility of suffering in Himore and more to distrust mere the standard accepted by the public self. His greatness and power are Power and Will, We hate such opinion which happens to obtain in His predominant attributen. His things in our Kings and rulers our circle? We have small right to will is absolute and unquestionable. We will not have anyone say to criticise the Moslem if we, knowing
Now, what one believes.. about
UsThou shalt do this or that. the highest, prefer to pursue any God, in the last resort, is that not because it is right or good for lower ideal, and remain content which governs one's outlook on life thee or me, but because it is my in that pursuit. and one's behaviour. It is there reasonless pleasure," To hold such fore first and foremost, and really a belief about God is obviously to almost exclusively, the Moham-produen a character burd and of medan conception of God which doubtful morality. constitutes the difference between a It is true that Mohammed laid his disciples anything comparable Moslem and a true Christian. They down for his followers rules of to the satisfaction of heart and cach worship the one God, but they conduct which he taught them to mind or the dynamic of character think of Him wholly differently, regard as divine, and the general which Jesus Christ offers to his. So it is also between the true and stedience to these rules found Similarly, those who have allowed the false Christian; their different amongst Moslems is admirable. their high Christian ideas of God conceptions of God have the effect But. Allah being what he in such and a life to become lowered, of making them very different rules spring not from his essen-miss the peculiar rieles which come people.
tinl character, but from bare state to those who aim constantly at the Mahomet's Conception of God Notments that these things shall be highest.
he could just as well have issued other and quite different rules.
If Mahomet Had Known Christ!
Followed.
Isla makes less demands upon character than the Christianity therefore its rewards are not Bo grent. Mohamed cannot offer to
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Indian Company.. Inspection Parale-All ranks of the Indian Company will parade at Police Headquarters on Thursday, March 5, for a general inspection of equipment, etc., by the Com- pany Commander. Fall in at 5.33" p.m. sharp under P/Sgt. R. J. Hunt.
Dress: Blue uniform, cap. with white cover: belt (without frog), truncheon, whistle, armlet and badge, Pocket Policeman Revolver Practice.-There will be and note-book to be carried, Thobe revolver practice at the Kennedy Fload Range to-morrow.
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The Mohammedan emphasis is altogether upon the greatness and the power of God. His will in Then the Moslem and the Chris- paramount; so much so that all tinn have before them quite dif- other. attributes are but aspects of ferent ideals of human life..
niet in possession of uniform will attend in mufti. No member may will. A comprehension will pro Mohammed actually compared him.
bo absent from this parade without supposes omniscience, almighty self favourably with Jesus Christ. power, and complete capability for But such a comparison is painful
Police Training School; leave from the Company Comman
der. The Equipment Officer will expression: But such attribute as to a Christian. I do not doubt love can only find place in such a that if Mohammed had known Jesus
The weekly clases for Police make it a point of being present. concontion if it be robbed of most truly, instead of distorted as b
Reservists at the Police Training: of what love ordinarily menna. was, by the false Chris whom Mohammed was always telling his he met, he would live held a dif On last Saturday afternoon soine School, Kowloon, will be held as
The weekly instructional patrol followers that the love of God for ferent opinion, and would very members and friends of the usual to-day at 8:30 p.m. All mem of the Kowloon Section will take man was more tender than that of probably have been a powerful ad- St. Peter's Church Group of the a mother bird for its young, and vocate instead of opponent of Chris Victoris, Diocesan and Missionary bers of the Chinese Company and place to-day: Fall in at Taimtsa yet the late Canon Temple Gaird- tianity. But the Inet is that Islam Association gathered at Blake Fier of the Flying Squad who have not tout Fire Brigado Station at 5.30
p.m.-Dress: Winter uniform and · ner of Egypt says that you cannot takes Mohammed as a ident in where a special bass in waiting yet passed Part 11. of Training cap with white cover get a Sheikh to advance beyond atas of Jesus Christ: The result to couper then on their annual Course should attend.
Squad Drill.-All recruits of the Flying Squad will attend at Contral conception of the love of God which of this again must be obvious visit to the Blind Home-at-Pok
Chinese Company. is not love at all. A fairly recent Moliiánted secured his power by fulan
Police Station for Squad Drill-on- Moslem text book says that Love force-justifiably frem, his point of A most interesting musical enter.
Squad Drill¬All recruits of the Thursday, February 26, under L.S. must be understood as Allah's view since Allah is Power-the op- tainment was given by the girls
1333 A. W. Mooney.". favour bestowed on a favoured in position of the Jews at Medina, and which was followed by a few items Chinese Company will attend at Special Duty Members who are dividual. There is helling in the of his opponenta at Mecca ho crush the visitors. At the conclusion Central Police Station for Squad detailed for duty at the Races will heart of Allah to correspond withed by masrare, claiming the autho of this the girly each werd given`a that in the heart of the Good rity of Allah for his methods, and dress and win of bits, the Drill on Thursday, February 26, at rarade at Central Police Station on hours and at 10.00 hours on the Shepherd or of the Father of the his followers have continued in the hole making a very acceptable 5.30 p.m. ander L.S. R43 To Chi Saturday, February 28, at 12:30 Frodigal. To state that God is same way ever since.
New Year's gift- Love moves the Moslem, not at all, In his carly days' Mohammed's aders will remember that last Inspection Parade. All rakns of following days: March 2, 3, 4, and except perhaps to R. smile of super-revelations were confined to the September, through the medium of the Chinese Company will parade 7
There will be instructional patrol jority, because he feels that to great general subject of God and this paper, the notice of the public at Central Police Station on Thure admit anything like an emotional the futura life, but as his power was drawn to the annual outing for day, March 6, for n general in for the Hong Kong Section on Fri element in God is to imagine increased, and especially after the the 60 or so Blind Girls which turn-spection of equipment, etc., by the day, February 27,
Company Commander. Fall in nt degree of weakness and helpless death of his, first wife, Khalajah, ed ant to be a great success, and a hess in Him which is unthinkable, whose influence upon him was good, sum of $136, over-subcribed, duly 6.36, p.in, shirp under P/Sgt, IL. J. Sharpshooters' Company.
Dress: Blue uniforin, exp Night Firing Practiur.Night Love cannalates enpacity for self-his rivelations steadily deteriorato handed to Mias Merits, the Matron Hunt. sacrifice and suffering: Allah is and with them his moral life, until in-Charge of the Home, was subee with white cover; belt (without Rifle Practice will be carried out it clearly too great to know these they degenerate into sanctions forquently utilised, as stated above, in frog), truncheon, whistle, armlet, on the Kennedy Reid Range tol He is often addressed as "The his personal desires and plans the purchasing of the dress mater and badge,Pocket Policeman morrow; at 6. p.m. Members will: Merciful."The Compassionate," Very probably Mohammed war ils and the tins of inscuits for, and note-book to be carried. Those assemble the Range at that time. not in possession of uniform will Miniature Range Practice-The but the thought is not of a genuine-sincere to the last but he was clear the girls at their request."
The members of the St. Peter'attend in mufti. No member may, Company Hifle Club will hold its ly pitying, actively sympathisingly self-deceived, and his character, Eatdise, but of the maroy of an when lerengainst the blameless Grap wish to take this opportun he absent from this parade without usual weekly practice on, the minia- ALUSTIG, WHO SLICK AF LEW" Iron white or Chris DETECT HID 19 yrity are a man-to-sange Thuradas Febrer the general destinction, for motives to be very gray. And yet this is tympathetic and generous assistance der. The Equiement, Ulficers, wait 23, at 8.13 p.m.
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