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rarely realized but very solemn fact.
The Church of Christ cannot divide herself
into portions, and fling responsibilities
from division to division, from
age to age.
Whether consciously or
not, when one member suffers all suffer,
when one member sins sin has come upon
all ;
and history
teaches no lesson more
plainly than that the harvest of the deeds of
one generation
is
reaped by another. Thus,
the most solemn lesson provided by the
story of Islam is contained in the very
existence of Islam. A disloyal
Church
presented a false Faith to one of the most
earnest Seekers after God who has ever
gone forth upon the great Quest and
;
the
Church has spent much wrath upon the
''false Prophet" who has ever since been her
greatest opponent. But she has never fairly
faced her sin, nor acknowledged that the
Islam of to-day
is to all intents the harvest
of the seed of false doctrine she sowed
thirteen centuries ago.
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