CHRISTIANITY AND MUHAMMADANISM

CHRISTIANITY and Muhammadanism both claim to be revelations from God; each bases its teaching concerning faith and practice on a book which it regards as the word of God, and in this

teaching there is much in common. They both maintain that there is but one God, Maker of heaven and earth; they both hold that the most important consideration for man in this life is his relation to this God; and they both profess to look forward to the attainment of that vision of God which can alone satisfy the human soul—that nearness and likeness to Him which is heaven, and which both hold will be attained only hereafter.

Yet, while they have so much in common, they have also so much in contrast—we might better say in contradiction—that there is no possibility of reconciling the two. There are at the present day those who regard religion as a matter very largely of purely human speculation, and who, seeing that there is much in Christianity and