Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race. By Edward W. Blyden,
LL.D. (W. B. Whittingham.)—Those who have been stirred by Canon Taylor's paper on "Islam," should by all means read Dr. Blyden's contribution to the controversy raised. Dr. Blyden is the Minister in England for the Republic of Liberia, and deals with his subject as an expert of undoubted ability and knowledge. He recognises the merits of Islam—and who cannot who compares it with African paganism ?—but he does not despair of African Christianity. On the contrary, he sees in the Negro, strengthened for the work by Western culture, the future preacher of a Christianity which shall meet and conquer Islam in this vast field. And he recognises the great over- ruling of evil to good in the circumstances which have given the Negro this new element. It is out of American slavery, in part at least, that the development has come.
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