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The Fundamentals and with fair comparison of its treasures with anything that the world can offer, Christianity goes fearlessly forth to deal with all the life and thought of man and to solve his problems and meet his needs in the name and strength of God. 2. At the root of all things is the idea of God. Here al religions meet to be judged. “The truth and the good inherent in all forms of religion is that, in all, man seeks after God. The finality of Christianity lies in the fact that it reveals the God for whom man seeks.” (Jevons, “Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion,” p. 258.) The best that can be said of any non-Christian religion is that it is seeking for that which Christianity possesses—the true and perfect God. “The conception of God with which Christianity addresses the world, is the best that man can form or entertain.” l If it is asked, “What is that excellence in Christianity by virtue of which it is entitled to be a missionary religion and •deserves to be received by all men ?”—the answer is : “Christianity is entitled to be a missionary religion and to displace all other religions, because of its God. “There are many glories in the religion of Jesus Christ, and it can do many services for men; but its crowning glory, or rather the sum of all its glory, is its God. Christianity has such a conception of God as no other religion has attained; and, what is more, it proclaims and brings to pass such an experience of God as humanity has never elsewhere known. It is in this that we find that superiority which entitles Chris tianity to offer itself to all mankind. “It is necessary to tell in few words what this God is who is the glory of Christianity and the ground of its boldness in missionary advances—this God so infinitely excellent that all men may well afford to forget all their own religions, if they may but know Him. The God of Christianity is one, the sole source, Lord and end of all. He is holy, having in Himself the character that is the worthy standard for all beings. He is love, reaching out to save the world from sin and fill it with
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