IS ENGLAND A CHRISTIAN NATION?
THE following from the Examiner may throw some doubt on the popular claim, even from the popular standpoint:— “Few people know that the queen of England has in her Indian Empire more Moslem subjects than are ruled by the sultan of Turkey. These Mohammedans are, as everywhere else, a hard people to reach. The college of the Mosque of Al Azhar at Cairo (so well described by Dr. H. M. Field), that of the Mosque of Palms at Tunis, and that of Kairouan in the holy city of Fez, are well known. There is a fourth great college, that of Deoband, India,11the Madrassa Ilm i Arbi, as the Arabic college is called. It has magnificent buildings, a large faculty, and sends out all the moulvies and hafizes, as the Moslem preachers and teachers are called, for India. These men are the most bitterly prejudiced against the ‘Christian infidels’ the world can find anywhere. They have their sects and their rivalries, but in one thing they are united, and that is their opposition to Christianity. Yet some of those very teachers are converted. For instance, there was the celebrated Rev. Imad-ud-Din, D.D., one of the greatest Christian preachers of all the world.”