Scriptural Doctrine of Fore-ordination from Fatalism--The Province
of Faith and of Trust.


LECTURE X.

THE DIVINE SUPREMACY OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH 338

The Claim that Christianity is the only True Religion--The Peculiar
Tendencies of Modern Times to Deny this Supremacy and Monopoly--It
is not Enough in Such Times to Simply Ignore the Challenge--The
Unique Claim must be Defended--First: Christianity is
Differentiated from all Other Religions by the Fact of a Divine
Sacrifice for Sin--Mohammedanism, though Founded on a Belief in the
True God and Partly on the Old Testament Teachings, Offers no
Saviour--No Idea of Fatherhood is Found in any Non-Christian
Faith--The Gloom of Buddhism and the Terror of Savage
Tribes--Hinduism a System of Self-Help Merely--The Recognized
Grandeur of the Principle of Self-Sacrifice as Reflected from
Christ--Augustine Found a Way of Life only in His Divine
Sacrifice--Second: No Other Faith than Christianity is Made
Effectual by the Power of a Divine and Omnipotent Spirit--The
Well-Attested Fact of Radical Transformations of Character--Other
Systems have Made Converts only by Warlike Conquest or by Such
Motives as might Appeal to the Natural Heart--Christianity Rises
above all Other Systems in the Divine Personality of Christ--The
Contrast in this Respect between Him and the Authors of the
Non-Christian Systems--His Attractions and His Power Acknowledged
by all Classes of Men--The Inferiority of Socrates as Compared with
Christ--Bushnell's Tribute to the Perfection of this Divine