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The Failure of Christianity 63
mere machinery of her task. There is
truth in the severe words of Dr. Martineau,
" Christ came to bring
fire
upon earth ;
and His disciples
after eighteen centuries
are still discussing the best patent match
to
it
get
kindled."
" On furlough,"
remarked a
"
missionary, one is overwhelmed
by the complexity, and the
labour, and the roar of Church machinery.
I suppose it is all needful, but one dreads
that the means may loom so large
that the
end shall be forgotten."
The story of Islam, the Church which Cornhas
grown up side by side with the Church Pa .
of Christ, is laden with suggestions upon Islam
this subject
of the failure of the latter to
bring in the Kingdom
of the Father. One
or two of these only can be noted.
i. Reference has already been made to
several of the most noteworthy ; e.g., the
reality of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the
easily-kindled missionary ardour ;
to the
same category belongs another striking
fact.
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