A MISSIONARY in Arabia writes: "Islam is the name by which Mohammedans call their religion, and the very name shows us much of what they mean by religion, for Islam means submission to God. Now you may say, Surely the Mohammedans must be good people if their chief object is to submit themselves to the will of God. That would be true if they had any good and holy idea of what God desires us to be. But the people here do not look on God as Father in the way that Christ taught us. They regard him as a great master, very much like a slave master. In fact, they say men are not the children of God; they are his slaves. And so they feel that they must submit themselves to God, just as a slave submits to his master. "But this is not all; they even say that all evil that a man does is from God. One day I said to my boy, 'Mohammed, put some water in the jug in my room.' A few minutes afterward I saw him and asked him if he had done it. 'Yes, sahib,' he said; so I went into the room, and when I looked there was no water. 'Mohammed,' I called, 'why did you lie to me?' 'From God,' he answered, meaning that God had willed he should tell that lie, and he could not do otherwise than according to his fate. So, too, when I ask a man whether he wishes to go to heaven or to hell, he does not say simply, 'I wish to go to heaven.' He says: 'I wish to go to heaven, if God pleases. God created me, and he can put me where he likes.' So they throw off all responsibility from themselves."