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class of similar size and attainments were mak
ing letters on tin slates as our tots learn A, B,
C. The children pay one piastre (-4 cents) a
week tuition ? I think they pay all their edu
cation is worth.
"We passed into a large Mosquo. I should
reckon, at a venture, it was 200x400 feet. A
famous sheik was teaching a normal class near
the pulpit. They sat in a circle on the floor.
Our guide spoke in low, awed tones. The gen
tleman in fez, turban and pongee shirt was
very distinguished and learned. He was evi
dently explaining the Koran to his pupils, all
of whom were mature men, some old men.
Nothing is worthy of study save the Koran;
and the way to study the Koran is to memorize
it.
In a far corner a Univernity student was
washing his clothes and hanging them on a line
to dry ? within the holy pre?incts of the great
University Mosque! Men in filthy rags lay
asleep in the corners, covered with flics and
vermin. Such is the University of Cairo.
No stream rises higher than its source. This
is the intellectual citadel of Mohammedanism.
It is not strange that its fruits are everywhere
degradation, tilth, disease, stagnation, ignor
ance, fanaticism and decay, mental, economic,
political, military, moral, physical and spir
itual.
An expert observer, Donald Maxwell, in a
recent book, "The Last Crusade," has this
trenchant criticism of Turkish rule, and the
Mohammedan religion :
"You may travel up and down the country
and look in. vain for one good thing that the
Turk has done, one trace of art, one piece of
architecture, one contribution in any way to
science or knowledge. The Turk cuts down,
but never plants. The great irrigation works
which made Mesopotamia the granary of the
ancient world were not allowed to decay until
the Turk came. The blight of Turkish rule de
scended like a destroying plague. If a man
by private enterprise did something to irrigate
his land and improve his crops, the Turk came
down like a wolf on the fold as a tax collector,
so that the last state of that man was worse
than the first, and no one dared follow his ex
ample."
IX.
Mohammedanism has been the only rival of
Christianity. Other religions, as Judaism, Con
fucianism, Shintoism, Brahamism do not and
have never made a universal appeal. Moham
med alone sought to rival Jesus Christ. The
crescent alone sought to supplant the Cross.
In the days of Charles Martel when the
Saracens swept over the Pyrennes and into the
plains of France the Cross seemed in danger
of extinction. But today the Crescent is wan
ing. Turkey staked all on the issue of the late
great war. She signed her death warrant, and
that of Islam. Mohammed has received his
death blow.
The End.
THE FACT OF CHRIST.
(Contnued from page 3.)
Here is another extract from the same book:
"I am inclined to urge that the very circum
stance that man has a consciousness of a some
thing within which separates him from the
brutes; that he claims to have a higher origin,
is a consideration of some value in determin
ing the question. Man's very feeling is a pre
sumption in favor of his having a noble lin
eage." (P. 351.)
If, instead of saying that James McCosh
"accepted evolution with most of its implica>
tions," Dr. Osborn had said, "with numerous
and most important exceptions," he would
have kept closer to the facts.
Evolutionists, of the Osborn-Conklin type,
are welcome to all the support and comfort
they can get from the writings of Dr. McCosh.
lie, too, had the courage of his convictions.
The writer of this articlc is a member of the
first class ('69) that graduated under him in
Princeton, and some of the members of that
class remember very well what he taught.
They have read his books and lectures, and
some of them listened with great delight to his
sermons, lie knew Whom he bciieved. The
fact of Christ ? His Person and work ? had
charms for him which forbad the thought that
the Lord of glory could be the offspring of a
brute. The Bible doctrine of Creation satis
fied his mind and he clung to it all the days
of his great life. In his criticism of the Dar
winian theory he writes: "If we have evi
dence of man's coming into existence by a
special act of God, there is not sufficient scien
tific strength in the Darwinian theory to over
turn it. Now, many believe that the Scrip
tures, while they say little or nothing as to the
origin of Animal Species, settle the question
of man's origin. * * * The book of Genesis
has anticipated geology by 3,000 years, and it
may well be attended to in speaking of the
origin of man. * * * * These Scriptures are
supported by) a body of evidence ? external
and internal ? which those who have weighed
it believe to be far stronger than the proof
that can be adduced in favor of the hypothesis
of man being produced by Natural Selection.
Those who have looked most carefully into
their own nature will be ready to acknowledge
that the Scripture account, which represents
man as formed out of the dust, but with a
soul formed in the image of God, is far more
accordant with our experience than that which
derive both body and soul from the lower ani
mals. To oppose this we have only a hypothe
sis which explains a number* of facts, but is
acknowledged not to explain all the facts."
(Pp. 353-4.)
It may be added that any hypothesis is to
be instantly rejected, if contradicted by only
a single fact. When it is said that Dr. McCosh
believed in evolution, it should be noted that
he often uses the word evolution in the sense
of development, and in that sense we are all
evolutionists.
Dr. Osborn also claims the support of St.
Augustine. One would like to see in his "City
of God, or iu his Confessions, and especially
in his exposition of the first Chapter of Gene
sis," the passage that teaches either openly
or by implication that man is the offspring of
a beast. But even if he did advocate that doc
trine, it would only prove that great men are
liable to make great mistakes. For example,
St. Augustine assures us that the bodies of the
Martyrs ? Gervasius and Protasisus ? were, for
years, miraculously preserved in order to sup
press the fury of Empress Justina, and that
these bodies were translated to the Ambrosian
Basilica, those possessed of devils, who came
into contact with them, were healed, and that
at least one blind man instantly received his
sight. lie doubtless bciieved it, but we do not.
This story, coining from St. Augustine, is in
teresting, hut even theistic evolutionists, so
called, will hardly give it credence.
Mr. Bryan (formerly of Nebraska) must be
deeply interested in the discovery of a tooth,
in the faunal deposit of that State. Dr. Os
born says its discovery "is one of the greatest
surprises in American paleological history,"
and "that the structure of the tooth brings its
wearer nearer to man than that of any other
ape." This is interesting, but so was Scheuch
zer's fossil which was declared to be that of a
man, but which, on further investigation,
"turned out to be that of a large salaman
der."
Dr. Frederich PfafT, Professor of Natural
Science in the University of Erlangen, con
cludes a very able article on "The Age and
Origin of Man," with three well ascertained
facts. lie proves (1) that the age of man is
short, extending only to a few thousand years;
(2) that man appeared suddenly; the most
ancient man known to us is not essentially dif
ferent from the now living man; (3) that
transition from the ape to the man, or man to
the ape, are nowhere found. The conclusion
is that the Scriptural account of man, which
is one and self-consistent is true; that God
made man in His own image, fitted for fel
lowship with Himself, and favored with it;
in a state from which man had fallen, but to
which restoration is possible through Him
Who is the brightness of the Father's glory,
and the express image of His person. This ac
count of man's origin is coherent. * * ? It ex
plains all the faets, and it commends itself
alike to the reason, the conscience and the
heart.
In opposing the Osborn-Conklin type of ev
olution, Mr. Bryan is in good company. ? Pres
byterian Banner.
Providence, R. I.
WE HAVEN'T MUCH TIME.
This may be the la-st year of your life.
We haven't much time. You cannot stay
here long; you have got to go quickly; pretty
soon you will be gone, anil your hands will
rest for a million years. Work li^rd. Don't
whine because you have work; but fhank God
you have the chance to do it. Be so honorable
in the world's industry, and so eager to serve,
that you will covet the hours you sleep.
Pretty soon it will be time to stop; and a
strange visitor will come by, and say: "Quit
work!" And you will say: "It is not night.''
But he will persist ? "Quit work!"
"It is only 2 o'clock; 1 have only just begun
for the afternoon." . ,
4 ' Quit work ! ' '
'It is not sundown vet; may I not work till
night?" * ?
"Quit work!"
And ye. . will lay down your hammer on the
anvil, with your hands black with the grime
of the smithy, and you will go out with him,
and he will say to you: "It is time to quit
work. ' '
And you will say: "Will I be back in the
morning?"
"No, not in the morning."
"Will I be back tomorrow?"
"No, not tomorrow."
"Where are you taking me?"
"I am 'taking you to a land very far off,
and from whose 'bourne no traveler ever re
turns.' Come alon,-?. Thn is the way."
"Can't I go back ?i?ce?"
"No," and somehow there is a little stern
ness in hig voice.
But you will say : "I must go hack a minute,
only a minute, just once, to tell ? "
"No, come on !"
0, who is ft? It is the master, Death. You
cannot go back ? not for a minute; no, you
might just as well ask for a century as for a
minute. Suddenly it will be pitch dark and
Death will be gone, and you will be gone
Pray Ood that, when you get there, Christ
will be with you, lest you perish in solitude. ?
Bishop Quayle.