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216 Mohametan subjects—as a little girl would feel for some pretty small eggs of snakes. May the Lord grant that she may see her mistake before the season of the ripening of iniquity. It is not necessary to be a prophet for the prediction of a near future outbreak of a united Islam against a divided christianity. The Mohametans themselves are conscious that their end is approaching nigh, and that a great and last conflict will occur between themselves and the "giaour" powers of the world before Islam is driven to its former source. They say, "Sham (Damascus as the capital of Islamic regions) was the first, and Sham will also be the last." Islam is praying daily for this final conflict.

The unwise policy of Christendom is to give them time and opportunity to carry forward their long-cherished ambition. The Sultan of Turkey has craftiness and advisers enough to devise plots against "the giaours" who are trying to seize his aliencealliance [sic] against the brother nation. In the history of Islam there has been no more proper time to score a victory upon the Christian world. Egypt and other African territories, India and Afghanistan, Persia and Turkey, all Mohametan countries—and all offended by the policy of England—are finding good help in the anti-British union of Russia and France and unwise cooperation of the hot-headed German Emperor, to rise against England and to throw off her yoke; what then? Just what would be the destiny of a lion-keeper when the beast became excited and let loose? This is not a political dream, but a fearful reality,