The Southern Presbyterian Review, Vol. 1: Conducted by an Association of Ministers in the Town of Columbia, S. C., June, 1847 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Southern Presbyterian Review, Vol. 1: Conducted by an Association of Ministers in the Town of Columbia, S. C., June, 1847

The law of Mahomet claimed to be a revelation from Heaven, and though, in accordance with its pretensions, it demanded faith, yet, as it presented no rational grounds of conviction, its policy was to intimidate or bribe the under standing, according as fear, prejudice, or last was the pre dominant principle of action. Where it could not extort a blind credulity, it made the passions the vehicles of its doc trines - the timid it frightened to submission, the profligate it allured to acquiescence, and the heretic and skeptic it wheedled and cajoled by a partial patronage of their errors. Exclusively a system of authority, it gave no scope to dis cussion. Its great argument was the word of its Prophet, its decisive sanction the sword of its soldiers, and its strong est attractions, the licence. It gave to voluptuous indulgences. Paganism wore the face of error, and Mohammedanism of immature.

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