Personality--Its Power Attested in the Life of Paul--The Adaptation
of Christianity to all the Circumstances and Conditions of
Life--Abraham and the Vedic Patriarchs, Moses and Manu, David's Joy
and Gratitude, and the Gloom of Hindu or Buddhist Philosophy--Only
Christianity Brings Man to True Penitence and Humility--The
Recognized Beauty and the Convincing Lesson of the Prodigal
Son--The Contrast between Mohammed's Blasphemous Suras, which
Justify his Lust, and the Deep Contrition of David in the
Fifty-first Psalm--The Moral Purity of the Old and New Testaments
as Contrasted with all Other Sacred Books--The Scriptures Pure
though Written in Ages of Corruption and Surrounded by Immoral
Influences--Christ Belongs to no Land or Age--The Gospel Alone is
Adapted to all Races and all Time as the Universal Religion of
Mankind--Only Christianity Recognizes the True Relation between
Divine Help and Human Effort--It Encourages by Omnipotent
Co-operation--The All-Comprehensive Presentation of the Gospel.


APPENDIX 381




ORIENTAL RELIGIONS AND CHRISTIANITY

LECTURE I.

THE NEED OF UNDERSTANDING THE FALSE RELIGIONS