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Preface
Muslim lands and how cruel the tender
mercies of Muslim rule
may be, we desire
nothing better than that Islam should be
blotted from off the face of the earth.
But Islam is still a world power, before
which the Christian nations of Europe
have stood helpless even while fellow-
Christians have been cruelly and wickedly
entreated. Islam cannot be ignored nor
despised. Rather it is
imperative
that it
should be studied, if possible with sympathy,
by the Christian peoples,
in order
that the Muslim motive power may be
understood, and that Islam may be met face
to face, as it must one day be met by
Christianity, worthily and Christianly.
What if the inevitable battle should be
fought by the armies of the Cross, rather
than by the armies of the Nations
This little book has been prepared,
not
primarily as a study of Islam, but rather
to indicate directions which Christian,
and especially Missionary, thought might