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Dr. Cyril Alington states that Elementary Christianity (Longman's, 2s. &I.)

is nothing. more than a handbook for. Dr. Cyril Alington states that Elementary Christianity (Longman's, 2s. &I.) is nothing. more than a handbook for. beginners. But Christianity is so _vast a subject that in. it no one need be ashamed to call himself a beginner," as the author says. Dr. Alington takes up many questions of absorb- ing interest in the present day and his views arc modern although not modernist, arresting although not sensational. Has history pronounced an uncompromising verdict against the method of Mohammed and in favour of the idealism of Christ ? We wish it were so, but wishing does not alter facts, and there are parts of the world where MOhanunedanism

• is spreading faster than Christianity.

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