Islam, a challenge to faith; studies on the Mohammedan religion and the needs and opportunities of the Mohammedan world from the standpoint of Christian missions . name and after the example of Mohammed,what should we not do in the name of Jesus Christ andin obedience to His marching orders? A careful studyof these early Moslem conquests impresses one with thefact that some measure of their success was due to theirenthusiasm and fanatic faith, as well as to the charac-ter of their creed and the mere power of the sword. Thepreaching of Islam was earnest, and demanded as uncon-ditional a surrend
Islam, a challenge to faith; studies on the Mohammedan religion and the needs and opportunities of the Mohammedan world from the standpoint of Christian missions . name and after the example of Mohammed,what should we not do in the name of Jesus Christ andin obedience to His marching orders? A careful studyof these early Moslem conquests impresses one with thefact that some measure of their success was due to theirenthusiasm and fanatic faith, as well as to the charac-ter of their creed and the mere power of the sword. Thepreaching of Islam was earnest, and demanded as uncon-ditional a surrender as did their weapons. The thunderof their cavalry was not more terrible to the enemy thanthe clamor of their short, sharp creed in the ears of anidolatrous and divided Christendom, or the ears of ig-norant pagans: *La-ilaha ilia Allah! Allahu Akbar!These men of the desert carried everything before them,because they had the backbone of conviction, knew nocompromise, and were thirsting for world-conquest. NotKhalid alone, but every Moslem warrior felt himself tobe the Sword of God. ^C. R. Haines, Islam as a Missionary Religion, loo. ^S&& Chapter VL. THE SPREAD OF ISLAM 79 Nor did they shrink from hardship, danger or deathitself, in this holy war for their faith. Had not Mo-hammed said: The fire of hell shall not touch the legsof him who is covered with the dust of battle in theroad of God? And was not Paradise itself under theshadow of the spears of the thickest fight? To the modern Christian world, missions imply or-ganization, societies, paid agents, subscriptions, reports,etc. All this is practically absent from the present Mos-lem idea of propagation, and yet the spread of Islamgoes on. With loss of political power, the zeal of Islamseems to increase, for Egypt and India are more activein propagating the faith than are Turkey or Morocco. In Burma (where Indian merchants are the Moslemmissionaries) the Moslem population increased 33 percent, in the past decade. In the Weste
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