Show ISLAM it is reported that a number ol 01 dervishes lentoni have arrived in new york and will undertake to convert americans Ameria ans to a belief in the koran the new york press bays the who have come here to try to convert americana to the koran in all that the term implies are i goes without saying perfectly delcoma to make the trial there are a good many people to whom any sort of conversion would the a benefit and if the dervishes capture them and avei induce them to emigrate emi grata to moslem realms they naver would he missed it is quite out of the usual for islam to send missionaries among christiana do a great daal of missionary work but it is usually among pagans far into the wilds of africa and asia bun dreda of mis siaa eries wander every year and thousands of converts are tha fruits of their labor the doctrine of islam seems irly well adapted to the pagan mind it was originated am ing an idolatrous people and its chief comer stone seems to bo there ia a GOD and one GOD only every thing goes first to impresa this idea on the mind and the Konin is a great aid in that direction another thing that aid in tha spread of islam among is the plane of equality upon which alj are placeit by the koran all are brother in the strictest sense of the term their religion knows no class distinction neither in theory nor in practice and carry that principle with them wherever their missionaries go it matters not whether a people be white or black savage or barbarous missionaries of islam get down on a plane where they can reach the heart they live with a tribe and become one with them and in this lies the main secret of their success christian on the other hand go wih superior ideas of themselves ant adopt a higher and different mode of living from the nathies nat vies the result is that christians in africa ara regarded as foreigners while edana are received as brothers but while islam meets success among pagans we hardly think the religion can make much progress among tho more enlightened christian cat ions not because christianity could not profit by many practices and precepts bat because our mode of living precludes that close relationship be tween the aud the people abobo referred to that equality or brotherhood that is so admirable a feature in islam cannot flourish in our our present state of society is made up of class distinctions ions and our teaching and training will not allow us to a with filth aad ignorance it is generally understood by that our civilization is c to theirs and in turkey they abhor the encroachment of european or as they term it french methods buoy regard our modern inventions as a denaco menaco to their institutions and aa a result we find that country today about three hundred joara behind the times but dang have just cause to oppose our civilization m luuy particulars they shudder aheu referring to tho evih cf our saloons aBd tho many miseries chuh our social ams entail saloons in are unknown and broth eis unheard of they have their hares harems id ia true but ib punished by death in many localities aad fornication fornica tiou by social ostracism they have a high ensa tensa t of virtue in every othor particular wo repeat the presa anys the dervishes dervis hea are welcome though VB can hardly believe tiey hav i como to make conversions |