Show I Turkey has been taking the census I or Mohammedans and the Government lIohammc announces that there arc 176000000 followers J fol-lowers of the faith Of this number 18000000 are under the personal rule of the Sultan 09000000 live In Asia Africa I I Afri-ca has over 36000000 and the rest areI scattered throughout the other countries coun-tries of the world In Africa the progress pro-gress of Mohammedanism is most striking At the beginning of the present pres-ent century Tlmbuctoo was the only Mohammedan settlement In the valley I of the Niger river while now more than I I half the population has adopted the I I faith Oscar Mann n German student of religions thinks it cannot be denied that Mohammedanism has done much for the wilds of Africa claims that it has stopped cannibalism and human I sacrifice encouraged cleanliness and the wearing of clothing tended to unify the wanIng tribes and substituted substi-tuted the worship of one God for the heathen practices of the tribal relations rela-tions He ascribes its success to timer time-r simplicity of the creed the convert being be-ing asked merely to believe the two propositions that there is no god but God and that Mohammed is the prophet of God The cQnvert then learns the i five duties of reciting the creed observing ob-serving five appointed times of prayer paying alms fasting during the month toxEamadhan and making the pil grlmnge to Mecca Mohammedanism lays stress on forms rather than on life and in this has an advantage over ens Christianity In appealing to tho heath 1 |