The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-26

church still makes his weekly pilgrim
age to the mosque, thus maintaining
nnbroken record covering nearly
three decades.
I hope l shall be pardoned for giving
SO much space to SO military and spec
tacular a performance, but it is a scene
that can be witnessed nowhere else,
and is the last reminder Of the pomp
and show that formerly characterized
all the empires of the east. It may
seem little sincongruous that so many
swords and muskets should be brought
but it must be remembered that Mo-
hammedanism recognizes the sword as
legitimate agency in the spread Of it's
creed. ....
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I have been tempted to refer to the
tenets Of Mohammed before, for we
began to- meet the followers of the
prophet as soon as we entered Asia, but
it seemed more appropriate to consider
the subject in connection. with the high
parsonage who combines the authority
of temporal ruler with the dignity Of
caliph. '' .." Web
The Koran is the book of the law,
and the Moslem is not permitted to
Mohammed announced that he had been
selected as the messenger Of the Lord
and commissioned to preach, he began
giving out what he declared to be rev.
Citations. They read as commands to
central idea was tho unity of God and
his special mission the overthrow of
idolatry.
the body, and the Koran is full Of
promises to the faithful, and as full
Of threats against the infdel. In the
Koran God is quoted as promising:
"For those who are devout are pre-
pared with their Lord gardens thru
which rivers flow; therein shall they
continue forever; and they shall en-
Joy wives free from impurity and the
favor of God" For the infdel, which
prophet the following nI punsh inps us is
threatened: overly, those who dis
believe, our signs, we will surely cast
to be broiled in hell fire; so often as
their skin shall be we'll burned, we will
give them other skins in exchange,
that they may taste the sharper pun
ishment; for God is mighty and wise. "
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Thru the Koran he not only credited
God with the creation and with care
for all the wants of man, but he also
declared that God deceived and misled
some, while he guided others Alright.
In one revelation he makes God say:
'They who accuse our signs Of false
hood. are deaf and dumb, walking in
darkness; God will lead into error
whom he pleaseth, and whom he pleas
eth he will put in the right way"
He accepted the Old Testament, and
counted Christ among the prophets.
In one Of the revelations he declares
that he is commanded to say. eve
believe in God and that which has
been sent down unto JUS, and that which
has been sent down unto Abraham and
Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the
tribes and that which was delivered
unto Moses, and Jesus, and that which
was delivered unto the prophets from
their Lord; we make no distinction be-
tween any Of them and to God we are
resigned.'
In the beginning Of his ministry his
| revelations were friendly to the Jews,
whom he at first attempted to con:
ciliate, but when they rejected him, he
gave out other revelations which
treated the Jews with great severity
He started out to rely upon reason and
an appeal to the conscience, and by
! persuasion he formed the nucleus Of his