Show TURKISH CONSTITUTION DOES NOT AID CHRISTIANITY Current Literature discussing the tho new order of things In Turkey won wonders ders deIs whether It Will 1111 mean ultimately Christian gains In the empires do concludes that hunt It wilt 11 not The Tho new Turkish constitution grants religious liberty Heretofore It was death to renounce the tho MOhammedan faith But Dut the hue Young Turk needed the In his rebellion and was to grant concessions to him hence lie tho ChrIstian missIonary Is Itco to en enter lor the tho empire The phenomenal political anti so 50 changes within the tho Mohammedan Orient In Turkey TInker and Per Por PorIa PerIa Ia ER says B the tho writer havo In man runny circles aroused the hue hope that thal now the wIde 1110 domain ot of ChristIan lands In east easL and northern Africa taken from It mora than a thousand years carR ago ngo b by bythe the followers of tIm tho prophet or of Moo Mec Mecca ea ca and that slam ns as n a religion and andas as 35 It a dU distinct mul aLti typo of lure and civilization will vIlh rapIdly die integrate before the forces of western Christian ideas An Impression prevails that lint In Is 16 Isham lam ham anti religion arc so Inti Interwoven ihal iso tho political of the or of tItle this faith which Is transpiring before our eyes oes in lands will bring wIth It also a religious disruption LIon tion But Bul tho ho history or of Islam during the tue nineteenth century does docs not nol warrant an any such conclusion Islam far from losing josing ground Is gaining It makes its ill south and aud central Africa In the teeth of the ChrIstian power poors It Il controls fore adapted to Or lemal 11 needs 18 I than han Christianity as we so I Inow now conceive It should outstrip Chris Christianity In Africa antI and retain its hold on Asia The faith o of Christ so 0 far as foreIgn are concerned Is nicking making little progress 0 |