A STRANGE VIEW OF CHRIST.
By Editor
In a sermon at an Institute of Unitarians, in Providence, R. I., is found the following paragraph:— "There had been but four men who stood forth as great religious leaders. They were Confucius, Mahomet, Buddah, and Jesus. Confucius taught the Chinese, but the religion which he taught was not adapted to the race. Mahomet was a grand torch of infinite service, but his faith was not universal. Buddhism and Christianity were alike in their regard for the whole human race. A Buddah girl who had been converted to Christianity was dying, and her mother wept for the future of the girl. The girl, to comfort her mother, told her a dream which she had. She dreamed that she saw the Lord Jesus and the Lord Buddah standing side by side in Heaven. Both smiled upon her, both smiled upon each other; but she said the crest of the Lord Jesus was the higher. That dream, said the speaker, I believe will be realized. I believe the time will come when humanity will elect, if that word may be used, the Lord Jesus as the great leader of the race. The unity of race; the brotherhood of man was the key note of the religion of Jesus. Christianity, as a historic religion, stood or fell upon the unity of man." So then the Lord Jesus Christ is, is he not, only the author of one of the religions of the world, by means of which men can be saved! Then is he only a little superior to Buddah, regarded as the superior of the authors of religions, and on terms of loving fellowship with him! Then by some process of reasoning, or otherwise, is the race coming to elect the Lord Jesus and his religion! Now there are, doubtless, those who regard such notions as these not only as sober sense, but also as the advanced thought of the age. But to us they are strangely in contrast with the teachings of the old book known as the Word of God, which the world, we do not believe, has yet outgrown. In it we find expressed such sentiments as these, "Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." "One Lord, one faith, one baptism." "For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all." "And hath given him a name which is above every name." "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins." Now we may be behind the times and fogyish, but we greatly prefer the old teaching to the new.—Morning Star.