early Christian
apologists. Tertullian, for instance, glorifies the Christian martyrs,
and then, to show that they are not foolish or desperate men, cites
the precedents of Regulus, Zeno, Mutius Scaevola, and many others
(Apol. c. 50)!

[I] Compare Neander (Am. tr.), I., 450. Huc's Thibet, II., 50.
Tennent's Christianity in Ceylon, pp. 219, 220.

[J] Capt. Canot, pp. 153, 180, 181. Wilson's Western Africa, 75, 79,
92. Richardson's Great Desert, II., 63, 129. Johnstone's Abyssinia,
I., 267; Allen's Niger Expedition, I., 383. Du Chaillu, Ashango Land,
xiii., 129. Barth, _passim_, especially (I., 310): "That continual
struggle, which always continuing further and further, seems destined
to overpower the nations at the very equator, if Christianity does not
presently step in to dispute the ground with it." He says "that a
great part of the Berbers of the desert were once Christians, and that
they afterwards changed their religion and adopted Islam" (I., 197,
198). He represents the slave merchants of the interior as complaining
that the Mohammedans of Tunis have abolished slavery, but that
Christians still continue it (I., 465). "It is difficult to decide how
a Christian government is to deal with these countries, where none but
Mohammedans maintain any sort of government" (II., 196). "There is a
vital principle in Islam, which has only to be brought out by a
reformer to accomplish great things" (I., 164).

Reade, in his Savage Africa, discusses the subject fully in a closing
chapter, and concludes thus: "Mohammed, a servant of God, redeemed the
eastern world. His followers are now redeeming Africa.... Let us aid
the Mohammedans in their great work, the redemption of Africa.... In
every Mohammedan town there is a public school and a public library."
He complains that Christianity utterly fails to check theft, but
Mohammedanism stops it entirely (pp. 135, 579, English ed.).

For Asiatic Mohammedanism see Sleeman's Recollections, II., 164, and
compare Tennent's Christianity in Ceylon, p. 330, and Max Mueller's
Chips from a German Workshop, II., 351. The London Spectator, in
April, 1869, stated that "Mohammedanism gains thousands of converts
every year," and thus described the activity of its organization, the
statement being condensed in the Boston Journal: "Of all these
societies, the largest, the most powerful, the most widely diffused,
is the Mohammedan population. Everywhere it has towns, villages,
temples, places w