There is a little book which has the answers to all the important questions that have racked the br: ins of thinkers throughout the ages. Ask the instructed Christian child whence comes the human race, what is its destiny, and he will tell you simply yet sublimely. Ask him about God, and man's duties towards Him and his fellow men, about the meaning of life, of suffering, and if death is the end of all things; and his reply astonish even the learned who are floundering in the morass of doubt. That amazing little book is the Christian catechism. Therein the inquirer will find the religion of tomorrow one not destined solely for a p2rticular people or race or culture, but for all mankind. Christianity is emphatically not an occidental religion; it originated, not in the West, but in the East—the Near East, where Asia meets Europe—a geographical symbol of the spiritual fact that it belongs exclusively neither to East nor West, but is divinely destined for both.
We have compared it to other religions; but it is really incomparable. The asylums are full of cranks who think themselves God; but of the great religious founders Christ alone claimed divinity, and was crucified not for insanity, but blasphemy in insisting that He was' equal to the Father. H. G. Wells, who doesn't even call himself a Christian, says, "The old Roman historians ignored Jesus entirely.. Yet more than 1,900 years ter a historian..fnds the picture centering, irresistibly around the life and character of this most significant man," A veritable giant among religious founders, He stands alone, unrivalled, matchless, transcendent.
He doesn't present Himself as merely one of them, but as the only son of the eternal God, equal to Him. "Philip, he that sooth me sooth the
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