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Islam
court death in some terrible manner." The
best that can be said of other lands is that
there is an armed neutrality.
The two antagonists must one day
meet ;
and the war, on the one side at
least, will be a religious war. It will be a
terrible war, waged
at fearful cost. It
could hardly be otherwise, for the wrongs
to be avenged on either side are deep and
of long standing.
It is a saying with Mussulmans that
Christianity
fears to meet Islam. Missionaries
in Arabia have been taunted with the
fact that parties of two or three men are
sent by the Church of Christ to convert
Arabia, and the inference is drawn that the
older Faith dares not seriously to confront
the younger. Some colour is given to the
reproach by the fact that Christian Europe
dares not to confront the moribund
Turkish Empire
in defence of those who
bear the Christian name.
The question
of Christianity is, whether