50 |
THE MOHAMMEDAN CONTROVERSY
|
|
asylums and converts generally, and to the effect which appeals thus sounding
from among themselves, and addressing their feelings and reason with native
home-drawn arguments, will have throughout the country.
|
But of all human means we trust most
to those exhibitions of earnestness and anxiety, which Christian love is now
prompting its professors to put into active motion. Yes ; it is a matter of
congratulation that the attitude which Europe and America are now assuming, is
just that which is likely to, strike conviction into the impassive heart of
the Mohammedan. When he sees Christians so vitally alive to the infinite
blessings their religion is calculated to impart, so tenderly concerned for
the perishing condition of their brethren, and so filled with zeal to make
them sharers of their own blessings, as cheerfully to undergo loss and suffer
privation; this is a practical argument, the most likely of any to
convince him of the reality and Divine nature of the Gospel. God be praised
that Christianity is beginning gradually to assume her rightful position; and
no sooner shall she have fully done so, than a light must break forth
establishing before the world her truth and the unspeakable difference between
it and every false religion.
|
In conclusion, we would earnestly press the necessity which lies upon all of
removing, as far as their ability extends, the ignorance of the Mohammedans;
and the responsibility those are under who possess the requisite
qualifications, of affording them access to the numerous spheres of learning,
a knowledge of which is presupposed in most of our religious discussions. Let
us attend to Dr. Lee:
|
"In ancient History and Scripture, the Persians are necessarily very
ignorant,1 the best means they have of obtaining either being the
fragments
|
|