undoubtedly manifested a desire for a better condition of affairs than he in his lifetime had been able to establish.  The subsequent illness was probably due to the strain and anxiety of this pilgrimage.  Ayesha, the girl wife, tended him.  The many stories that have been told of these last days are not at all reliable, but it is certain that for five days he was quite helpless and delirious.  On the 7th of June, 632 A.D., ten years after the flight from Mecca, he died in the arms of Ayesha, leaving a work that wrought havoc in the Christian Church for centuries, and which, inspired by his immortal spirit, still exists in unyielding enmity against the faith of the meek and lowly Nazarene, whose native soil, in the providence of God, is owned by Islam’s son.  Never again will be heard the clash of steel on steel as Christian tries to vanquish Moslem.  Those days are happily past and gone.  Carnal weapons cannot avail against spiritual forces.  The eternal, peaceable Spirit of Jesus is slowly but surely permeating the gloom of Islam.  We see the resultant disintegration, and hope for that great day when, led by the broken and contrite spirit of their leader, the hosts of Islam shall bow before the King of Kings, recognising what, in time, they were impelled to deny—­Unity in Trinity, the at present unrevealed mystery of Deity.

Britain, the greatest Moslem power of the world, needs to change her policy in regard to Christian missionary work amongst Moslems, if she is desirous of promoting the welfare of those benighted people.  She must give freedom to the heralds of the Cross who labour in the lands of the Crescent.  And the prayers of her people must ascend on behalf of the sons and daughters of Islam who sit in darkness and the shadow of death.

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