Foreign Missions or World Wide Evangelism 77 His own goodness. He is wise, knowing how to accomplish His heart’s desire. He is Father in heart, looking upon His creatures as His own, and seeking their welfare. All this truth concerning Himself, He has made known in Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world, in whom His redemptive will has found expression, and His saving love has come forth to man- kind.” Set over against this conception of' God the views which we have seen that the non-Christian religions take of Him, and it does not need to be shown that the religion of the Christian God has supreme rights among men. “A religion that can proclaim such a God, and proclaim Him on the ground of experience, is adapted to all men, and is worthy of all acceptation. Since Christianity is the re ligion of such a God, Christianity deserves possession of the world. I t has the right to offer itself boldly to all men, and to displace all other religions, for no other religion offers what it brings. It is the best that the world contains. Because of its doctrine and experience of the perfect God, it is the best that the world can contain. Its contents can be unfolded and better known, but they cannot be essentially improved upon. At heart, Christianity is simply the revelation of the perfect God, doing the work of perfect love and holiness for His crea tures, and transforming them into His own likeness so that they will do the works of love and holiness towards their fel lows. Than this nothing can be better. Therefore, Chris tianity has full right to be a missionary religion, and Christians are called to be a missionary people.” 3. From its unique and adequate conception of God, it fol lows that Christianity has a message to the world which is full of notes which the non-Christian religions do not and cannot possess. Even ideas which some of these religions share with ^Christianity, such as ^belief in an after life, in the difference between right and wrong, and that the latter deserves punish ment ; in the need of an atonement for sin; in the efficacy of -
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