HOW MOHAMMEDANS VIEW CHRISTIANITY.

Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 164, 31 July 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)

HOW MOHAMMEDANS VIEW CHRISTIANITY.

Moiiammkd designates himself as the messenger from God, as Moses and Jesus. the Sou of Mir jam, also has been ; but Mohammed, according to his own words, had been sent to reveal a better way to salvation than the ono taught by .Jesus, whose way indeed could nov<T lead men to God, which He had revealed through Mohammed, and to despise this merey in a heinous crime : for it is impossible to live according to the teachings of Christ, and those who attempt it are inevitably lost. The revelation of Mohammed is something immeasurably superior to that of the Son of Mirjam. If, however, Christians and Jews determine to adhere to their imperfect revelation, they can do so to their own harm and destruction ; but just so soon as they begin to try to persuade a Mohammedan to give up his faith and accept theirs, they must be destroyed. If circumst tuces are such this method cannot be applied, it is forbidden to listen to their discourse. If, notwithstanding all this, a Modern should throw aside his faith, he must be killed. The prophet himself says : '• Wherever you find him, you must slay him." But, by the rejection of the groat grace of God through Mohammed, Christians and all other unbelievers have become such "toss criminals that their lives have no worth or value whatever. If, then, a Mohammedan, either purposely or not, kills a Christian, the Lord will be merciful to him. It is a terrible siu to regard the Christains as equal to a Mohammedan or to consider them as entitled to any rights over against the litter. Whoever regurls thorn in this light despises tin: mercy of Cod which through 'Mohammed "has showu an easy way to reach heaven, and all those who despise and reject this must receive their pay, i.e. must be killed. The conclusions to be drawn from this teaching ot the Koran, ..spcciallv if the apphc ition is left to the judgment of the rabble, is readily seen. The position which Mohammedans must take against Christian missions in general and against Christians as such is clear. A Mohammedan government, can permit the activity and even the presence of Christians only where it is too weak to forbid theai. That the command t~> slay a convert from Mohammedanism to Christianity is carried out if possible was seen in the recent murder, on a Russian railroad train, of the cuuvcttedMohammedan, Stephar Ssfcjar, ou the very day he wu= baptised.