How long this shall be
delayed we know not. Their prophet has foretold that Islam shall not
outlive two thousand years before the Mohdy shall come, and the thirteen
hundredth is just commencing; nor do I believe their deliverance will be
so very long delayed. A "man of justice" may yet restore their fortunes;
but it will hardly be by present violence or by wading to Mecca through
seas of blood; and when the end of their humiliation shall have come,
it may be found that his true mission has commenced already, and that
the battle he was to fight has been long waging in the hearts of those
who have striven to reform their ways and purify their law, rather than
lament their broken power and the corrupt vanities of their temporal
empire.
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[18] The Arabs believe that the Beni Ghassan, the Christian Bedouin
tribe which opposed the Caliph Omar, migrated to Great Britain on the
Mohammedan conquest of Syria.
[19] Since this was written astonishing evidence of political vitality
has been given to Europe by Egypt, and there is now, I trust, little
doubt that she will be left to work out her salvation in her own way.
The phenomenon opens too large a vista to the imagination to be treated
of in a note, but the Author would invite attention to it as a fact
worthy of more consideration than all his arguments.
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