The great difference between Christianity and other religions is that in Christianity the work of salvation is accomplished by God. In other religions and systems of moral reformation the work of emancipation is one that man himself must accomplish. They begin by telling him what he has to do to avert the wrath and to win the favour of Deity. They differ, indeed, in their requirements, but this fundamental idea is common to every one of them, which shows that it is a natural and congenial thought of the human mind. The true religion, on the other hand, commences by contradicting and overturning this thought. It tells us that salvation, so far from being a work of man, is the result of a long and arduous work of sacrifice accomplished by God Himself. It tells us not what man has to do to win God, but what God has done to win man.

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