-In the Advance from Instinct to Conscience and
Religion, where does Moral Sentiment Begin?--If It was Right for
Primeval Man to Maraud, why Might not Robbery again Become His Duty
in Case of Extreme Deterioration?--Mr. Spencer's Theory of the
Origin of Moral Intuition--The Nobler Origin which the Scriptures
Assign to Man's Moral Nature--The Demonstrated Possibility of the
Most Radical and Sudden Moral Changes Produced by the Christian
Faith--Tendency of Ancient and Modern Theories to Lower the General
Estimate of Man--The Dignity with which the New Testament Invests
Him--The Ethical Tendency of the Doctrine of Evolution--The Opinion
Expressed on the Subject by Goldwin Smith--Peschel's Frank
Admission--The Pessimistic Tendency of all Anti-Biblical Theories
of Man's Origin, Life, and Destiny--Buddha, Schopenhauer, and the
Agnostics--The more Hopeful Influence of the Bible--The Tendency of
all Heathen Religions and all Anti-Christian Philosophies toward
Fatalism--Pantheism and the Philosophy of Spinoza Agreeing in this
Respect with the Hindu Vedantism--The Late Samuel Johnson's "Piety
of Pantheism," and His Definition of Fatalism--What Saves the
Scriptural Doctrine of Fore-ordination from Fatalism--The Province
of Faith and of Trust.

LECTURE X.

THE DIVINE SUPREMACY OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH 338

The Claim that Christianity is the only True Religion--The Peculiar
Tendencies of Modern Times to Deny this Supremacy and Monopoly--It
is not Enough in Such Times to Simply Ignore the Challenge--The
Unique Claim must be Defended--First: Christianity is
Differentiated from all Other Religions by the Fact of a Divine
Sacrifice for Sin--Mohammedanism, though Founded on a Belief in the
True God and Partly on the Old Testament Teachings, Offers no
Saviour--No Idea of Fatherhood is Found in any Non-Christian
Faith--The Gloom of Buddhism and the Terror of Savage
Tribes--Hinduism a System of Self-Help Merely--The Recognized
Grandeur of the Principle of Self-Sacrifice as Reflected from
Christ--Augustine Found a Way of Life only in His Divine
Sacrifice--Second: No Other Faith than Christianity is Made
Effectual by the Power of a Divine and Omnipotent Spirit--The
Well-Attested Fact of Radical Transformations of Character--Other
Systems have Made Converts only by War