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1 4 Islam<br />
THERE is in the story of Islam an interest<br />
it is<br />
quite unique the work of one unaided<br />
;<br />
mind, the mind of a man unlettered and<br />
ignorant, who came of an isolated people,<br />
and who gained such knowledge<br />
as he had<br />
of the<br />
great world from hearsay as he<br />
travelled between Central Arabia and<br />
Syria in charge of the merchant caravan of<br />
his mistress. This man, morally very<br />
frail<br />
to our thinking,<br />
is all but divine to two<br />
hundred millions of men and women.<br />
His word is final to them ; it alone reveals<br />
God, it alone guides life, it alone commands<br />
all Muslim rulers, and it defies Christianity<br />
as no other power has done.<br />
Muhammad lived six hundred years after<br />
Christ,<br />
his Faith came into existence in<br />
full view of Christianity, it publicly claims<br />
to be a higher revelation and to supersede<br />
Christianity and the Christian nations<br />
;<br />
have not yet disproved the claim. The<br />
attempt has not indeed been made, unless<br />
we reckon the chivalrous and ill-fated