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 12 oblivious of the fact that Christianity came from the East, just as did the Jewish and Muslim faiths. I do quite "know what I'm talking about" when I say that Christ was an Eastern man. From the way the Bishop puts it, an ignorant person might be led to believe that Christianity was a Western product, and that it was wrong to go to the wicked East for religious ideas!

With regard to the fiction of the slavery of thirty thousand Christian girls languishing in Turkish harems, the Bishop has proved himself very inaccurate—to say the least of it—and I deeply regret to have to point to the fact that the misstatements have been copied in the press of other countries as truths because of the exalted position of their author.

For a further elucidation of the facts about this thirty thousand-girl story I may refer my hearers to my recently published little work, The Affinity between the Original Church of Jesus Christ and Islam, where the matter is discussed in Chapter V. There is a well-merited rebuke