History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . ofthe ages came into existence with the rise of , the founder, born in Mecca, Arabia, about 572, cameto believe that his trances were from God, and began to tell ofthem. Driven out in 622, he fled to Medina where he was38 accepted as prophet and leader of a tribe of Arabs. Surroundedby idolatry among his own people and by a half-heathenismamong the Jews and Christians, rejecting the
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . ofthe ages came into existence with the rise of , the founder, born in Mecca, Arabia, about 572, cameto believe that his trances were from God, and began to tell ofthem. Driven out in 622, he fled to Medina where he was38 accepted as prophet and leader of a tribe of Arabs. Surroundedby idolatry among his own people and by a half-heathenismamong the Jews and Christians, rejecting the divinity of JesusChrist, and claiming himself to be Gods Prophet, he and hisfollowers succeeded in arousing the Arabian tribes to undertakea world crusade against idolatry. This developed then into awarfare against Judaism and Christianity, because of their hos-tility to the claim, There is no god but God, and Mohammedis His prophet. The Mohammedan soldiers, stimulated by theirbelief in fatalism and in a heaven of sensual delights for all thefaithful, with, Fight, fight—Paradise, Paradise, as their battle-cry, entered into the movement with almost irresistible fervor. THE RUINED TEMPLE AT LUXOR (THEBES), EGYPT The figure of the author on the base of the fifth column, right row, will enable one to estimate properly the immense size of these lotus bud columns. Photo by Rev. E. B. Boxer and fury. To Christians and Jews alike but three offers weremade—become a Mohammedan, pay a tribute, or suffer , then Syria, fell, with Palestine, into their hands. A greatarmy then invaded Egypt. The famous temples, once pagan, andfor a brief while Christian, now became mosques. The tide ofbattle rolled then all the way westward to Morocco, destroyingas it came every trace of Christianity. Intoxicated with theirsuccess, the Moors now invaded Spain, then crossed the Pyren-nees, and were marching boastfully through France. But the 39 DETERIORATION AND DIVISION OF THE CHURCH hour of
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