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Show FAITH OF THE MVSSVLMAJV Tj m A traveler In Africa writes: "This Is n land of religion. Tho Mussulmans clovotlon Is Intense, ever present and all pcrvndli, being not an accessary tacked on, as It were, to his llfo, to bo practiced moro or less surroptU. tlously, but an ossontlal part, where with and wherein he lives at all times. A Mussulman prays openty and publicly, pub-licly, In no wiso afraid to bo neon. Uvery man wears bis string of bends whereon bo records the number of this, dally prayorH. Notwithstanding Its, to us, uninviting nppenranco, tho religion has mado nnd Btlll Is making, grcnt strides In Africa, and ono can only attribute this to tho fact that herb at last Is a rollglnn of which ttfi" adherents aro In no v,ay ashamed. It offers to tho fnltliful that absolute ad suranco of salvation and engender!; that blind, unhesitating faith thorclr which Is so comforting to tho native mind. "Seeing a crowd of pilgrims bound for Meccaspatlenily, nay, 'with plcis j ure, enduring tho worBt trcatmen. ; that one could Imaglno meted out u herds of driven staves, one cnles the : excess of faith that can engender sucu : a disposition. Though robbed, slain Tttarved, herded with pestilence and j subjected to countless hardships and annoyances, yet year after ear they come, from far and near, thousands j and tens of thousands strong, on tbU, tho most wonderful and far-reaching ! of latter-day pilgrimages, v "At'Jcddah ono sees pilgrims from all corners of tho globe Dutch sub- Jects from Java, Chinese from I'ekln i shiploads from India and farther India, In-dia, Russian subjects from nil parts of tho great empire, French subjects j from Algiers, from Morocco, and j dusky negroes who hava tramped for months from tho western shores ol "Africa through many lands aud midst ; many tongues they come, all to meet nt this thronged center of tho maelstrom mael-strom of the Mussulman faith," |