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“ It is this—that He has provided for fallen human nature an agent, or rather a legal representative; this being the only possible plan whereby one could stand in the place of another, transfering not only his acts but his very person as though it were himself. ”

“ Not only in the missionary library but in the secular press, Islam has never occupied so prominent a place as it does to-day. The Lucknow Conference, of which an account appeared in our columns, was both representative and comprehensive, and we are grateful that already practical results are evident. It is fair to say that there is not only a pan-Islamic movement, but also a pan-Christian movement throughout the world—a movement of self-sacrificing service and believing prayer on behalf of our Moslem brethren. ”

“ Now, since all the sins that a man commits are due to this evil nature; even if it could be supposed that God so exceptionally treated any one man as to "take off from him his burden which had galled his back," [3] and that he thus became sinless, not long would pass before he would commit some fresh sin, on account of his old evil nature, just as you may stop up a spring in one place, but it will break forth in another. Man's sinful nature is very like the disease of "Cancer", it may be apparently rooted out of the body, but before long it takes new root and grows again. ”

“ My brothers, though men in this life have brothers, friends, families, tribes, yet in the Day of Judgment they will be brought to account one by one, whether master or slave, since brother availeth not for brother nor slave for his master; "Dread the day when not in anything shall soul satisfy for soul, nor shall any ransom be taken from it, nor shall intercession avail, and they shall not be helped" (Koran, Surat el-Baqara, 117) , but as the Gospel says, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." ”

“ This evil nature, which is inherited from Adam, through the Fall, being the cause of a man's committing forbidden sin on reaching maturity, and consequent suffering of the necessary penalty, it behoved Divine Justice to create some special way by which man could obtain benefit to equal the amount of his great loss which he unconsciously suffered. God therefore provided him with a legal representative, perfect and mighty, able to repair the damage and remove the loss. ”

“ He is the only perfect man, prevented from sinful nature and sinful deeds.
It was, however, expected that you should have known all this from the Koran, seeing how much it has glorified Christ and exalted His position, oven to the extent of calling Him the Spirit and the Word of God, and distinguishing Him in all the stages of His life, from both prophets and men alike; for there is no other prophet to whom God did not forgive sins, removing His burden of guilt, as all the books testify clearly and the Koran also. ”

“ Since, then, men are only able to be saved by their own deeds, [2] and, as you have seen, all men's deeds are faulty, consequently the whole race would be doomed to perish in hell; but the all-merciful God intervened in man's private matter and planned for him a legal way of imputing to himself the deed of someone else as though it was his own, by which he could be saved! ”

“ The Koran says that a burdened soul cannot bear the burden of another soul, which means that every man is responsible for his own sins and enjoys the fruits of his own righteousness, every soul has (to its credit) what it has earned, and against it what (evil) it has acquired. ”

“ Suppose a father dies, leaving an inheritance to a child under age, the proper authorities appoint a legal guardian for Mm; every bit of the property which the guardian happens to sell on behalf of the child-heir is reckoned as sold by the child himself, and everything he buys is bought in the name of the child, all the actions of the legal representative of the minor being imputed to the minor himself, and when he comes of age, he has not the smallest right to invalidate that which was done for him in his name, whether it resulted in gain or loss ”

“ O men, does it not appear from all this that each man is held responsible for his own works and that the acts of others will neither harm nor injure, raise or lower; he who is saved is saved by his deeds, and he who perishes perishes by his own. Sad to say, all men on the face of the earth are sinners, those that you see to be better than their fellows were once evil doers, but repented, and are not, even now, entirely free from slips, nor immune from mistakes, or even the " greater " sins. ”

“ My brothers, the present world is not like the next, for here the poor supplicates from the rich, the weak obtains help from the strong, and the stranger finds a shelter with generous people, while the straitened one borrows either with or without interest from his more successful friend ”

“ The triumph of the Young Turks, the progressive efforts of the Constitutionalists in Persia, and pan-Islamic movements in other parts of the world were perhaps due to it no less than to other currents of thought hidden from the ordinary observer. ”

“ David the prophet said to the same purpose, "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me" (from the Zaboor—Psalm 51) . Also, "The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies." ”

“ It is also written: "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world ”

“ In this way the deeds of the one person are imputed to the other, whether bitter or sweet, and with or without his consent.
Know that the cause for appointing a legal representative for man, who is a responsible person himself, is his evil nature, which was formed in him whilst yet in his mother's womb. The Koran refers to this in the sentence, "Verily the heart is prone to evil" (Sura Joseph) , and also it says, "Cursed be man! What hath made him unbelieving? Of what thing did God create him? " (Sura "He frowned") ; and also, "Yet lo! man is an open antagonist " (caviller) , (Sura The Bee) . ”

“ Representatives of many missionary societies, and missionaries, many of them men and women grown gray in the service, counselled together for eight days, and sent out to the Churches a report which has accomplished more to arouse a serious interest in the work of carrying the Gospel to Moslems than anything undertaken in all the centuries past. ”

“ In imitation of the style of these Khutbas, which always deal with the principles of Islam, the Nile Mission Press has recently issued a series of Christian leaflets based upon texts selected from the Koran. The Oriental has his own peculiar mode of thought, and what appeals to the Eastern mind may not appeal to the Western. ”