We dare to admire him. Can we not sever the man from the system and learn to love him too?
That is the paradox of Islam—the hateful system, and the rough, natural, earnest, lovable man. How shall the Church of Christ bear herself towards it? What does it mean for each individual Christian in these opening years of the twentieth century?
QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER X
1. What grounds are there for considering the problem of the duty of Christianity in the face of Islam to be one of the great world-problems of our day?
2. What do you know of the Mohammedan population of India?
3. Draw a sketch map of the Turkish Empire. What is meant by the muezzin?
4. Why is Africa to-day one of the greatest battle-grounds between Islam and Christianity? What is being done? What ought to be done?
5. What do you know of Wad en Nejumi? How should such men be treated by the English in Egypt?
[[1]] It should be remembered that the early Church 'for three hundred years had all the Governments of the world and all the Courts of Justice against her.' Yet these were the days of the Church's greatest vigour!