Show STRUGGLE WITH MOHAMMED When Then It Is I Mated stated that hat India has Ims I S two mind a half million nominal Christians I the figure appears quite purge large but bill when wIlen It ht is remembered thai hat the entire population lation Is nearly and that about confess con Cess Islam the result of ot the tho efforts of the so called Christian missionaries appears rather Insignificant cantA cant clint cantA A writer in The fhe Open Court Chicago endeavors to 10 account for tor the slow HOV progress s of oC Christianity In India Among tho ho reasons he h gives sires Is this thin tint that smith and character of ot ChrISt do clo donot II not 1101 appeal to the Hindus His Ills earthly career renders Him flint If It anything too toa to tan tail tangible gible not mysterious to please the tansy fancy of oC the Hindu lovers of the occult His Ills gentleness and Ity It are arc accounted to Him hima for tor weakness I Why Wh the till Son of ot Clod Joll should not have I availed himself of ot all nIl the tho glories and I powers of ot the universe Is quite Incomprehensible It t Is the majestic the outwardly out outwardly l and visibly majestic that ap sp appeals peals penis to tl the Hindu Therefore ho Is In Ismore more Impressed with tho the Mohammedan motives of sovereignty and conquest than lhnn with the he Christian Ideals of oC meek imek meekness nets ness ne f and anti social helpfulness Another nother reason pointed out Is this that called Christian missionaries ml are ore not mint content with converting the natives to the new faith they olm at III making out of ot the and this Is la an nn Impossible task tank The rime on the contrary have hae havethe havethe the thc advantage of ot kinship There Is 18 not between them Slid and till Hie Hindus hinds the thc Intellectual and nd spiritual harriers barriers thud separate and Whatever Is li tho the pause cause ot of tho the situa situation lots tion In ht and elsewhere tho the fact tact remains that hint there thoro Is a n mighty con coil conflict IUd Illel on between Mohammedanism anti Christianity all nil along the lute lino II lie and that the tho lie followers of oC the Arabian prophet inn pitet appear to hold hohl their au own mm and 1111 to ail This Ihl IH is ono one of o the suns of uC th tho 1111 tuna time N h that hint not proof positive that thin tho religion of M Christ ChristIs Is III no longer what It Il was when promulgated prom Then Ihen It t had Imd no cathe cathedrals dials with Imposing services It 11 had no missionary societies with nn an annual Income of millions of ot dollars Its lie churches were tho the Melds Holds or tho ho woods or o even ewon Ill time the graves It Its apostles nod and teachers worn men from Crom the tile plough or ortho orthe the tho bont and they supported ns Os host they thoy the could Hut It land liml resting upon It tho power hover front from fronton fromon on Oil high that was wan Irresistible as nA tho the storm mind tongues of lire fire and so It ho bo camo Caine n II stronger than death Itself It olt In III this charge change from rant life to death can bo ho found the real cause cacao of or limo Iho decent of what In III our OUI ago age Is called Christianity Nor will any In ad ml advance vance be II until tho this D l v Imo Power t over again animates time the dry bones and causes them to 10 assume n 1 active form lorm It In is I generally admitted 11 that nt at the tho worlds congress of ot religions Urn the advocates of oC Christianity hardly held their own oln against tho time defenders of ot other systems If Ie that thaI Is true tho limo statement that hero thero Is III something mull mill radically roily cally wrong cannot connot be bo contradicted successfully |