. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. lopedportions of the country may be traced back to the efforts ofsuch intrepid travelers as Livingstone, Speke, Grant, Baker,Schweinfurth, Miani, Cameron, and Stanley. The Republicof Liberia, on the West Coast, modeled after the AmericanRepublic, was established after the great Civil War in theUnited States as a home for the manumit
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. lopedportions of the country may be traced back to the efforts ofsuch intrepid travelers as Livingstone, Speke, Grant, Baker,Schweinfurth, Miani, Cameron, and Stanley. The Republicof Liberia, on the West Coast, modeled after the AmericanRepublic, was established after the great Civil War in theUnited States as a home for the manumitted slaves, andplaced under the control of the various Protestant denomi-nations. In 1869 the cause of Christianity received a greatimpetus through the conversion of Queen Ranavalona, ofMadagascar. At this time the Protestant population ofAfrica was estimated at about 700,000. In Morocco, Algeria,and Abyssinia there was a Jewish population of about thesame numbers. The Abyssinian and Coptic churches werecredited with 3,500,000 members ; the Roman Catholic withfrom 1,000,000 to 4,000,000 ; and the Mohammedan with100,000,000. The Catholic and Protestant denominationshave since grown very materially, in consequence of the po-litical movements of Great AEAB AT PSAYEE. CHAPTER MOHAMMEDANS. Arabia before Mohammeds Birth—His Birth and Early Life-First Converm-,,ns—The Hejira—His famous Pilgrimages to Mecca -His Last Days amiDeath. ARABIA BEFORE MOHAMMEDS BIRTH. ARABIA, the birth-place of Mohammed, has at nil timesbeen an object of curiosity, both on account of the] xculiarities of its soil and climate, and the remarkscharacter of its inhabitants. Arabia prop r is bounded onthe northeast by the Persian Gulf; on the southeast by theIndian Ocean. The Red Sea extends along the whole of itssouthwestern coast, and an imaginary line drawn from thehead of the Persian Gulf, to that of the Red Sea, compl\\\a limits of the peninsula. More extended limits, hoever, are often
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