Grand Pecularity of the Gospel
Grand Pecularity of the Gospel.—Dr. Duff referring to the baptism of a Mahometan, says: 'A few days before his baptism, I asked him what was the vital point in which he found Mahometanism deficient, and which he felt that Christianity satisfactorily supplied? His prompt reply was—'Mahometanism is full of the mercy of God. While I had no real consciousness of inward guilt as a breaker of God's law, this satisfied me; but when I felt myself to be guilty before God, and a transgressor of his law, I felt also that it was not with God's mercy but with his justice I had to do. How to meet the claims of God's justice Mahometanism has made no provision; but this is the very thing which I have found fully accomplished by the atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross; and therefore Christianity is now the only adequate religion for me, guilty sinner.' —Sel.