its general tendency to raise the woman from the degraded position she occupied in most heathen countries, and even from that state of minority and dependence in which the Law of Moses left her, to the position of a free child of God, a responsible member of His kingdom in this world, and an heir of glory in that to come (see 1 Pet. iii. 7).

PART II

RELATION BETWEEN MUHAMMADANISM AND CHRISTIANITY

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CAN THE RELIGION OF THE GOSPEL BE REGARDED AS SUPERSEDED BY THAT OF THE QUR'AN?

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DID ISLAM, AS A RELIGION, EVINCE A SUPERIORITY TO CHRISTIANITY BY A HIGHER VITALITY AND GREATER POWER IN CONVERTING MEN, AND IN SPREADING SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL BLESSINGS

FROM the preceding comparison between Christianity and the Mosaic dispensation it must appear plain beyond any doubt that the former ranks higher than the latter, and is a more advanced revelation of the one true religion God has given to men, so that it must be a sin for any one to remain in the Jewish religion after having received the opportunity of becoming a Christian. The next question for our consideration is this: 'Does Muhammadanism stand in the same relation to Christianity in which Christianity stands to the preceding economy, or, in other words, is it a still higher revelation of the true religion?' And if, after carefully and candidly examining the question, we must answer it in the affirmative, we are bound to acknowledge it to be the