CHRISTIANS AND MOIlAalMEDANS.
[To ear EDITOR or v." Sererwros."1 you allow me to enter a strong protest against thy latest attempt to create illwill between Christians and Moham- medans? Newspapers of Saturday last contained an appeal from the Church Missionary Society for funds for nnissionixiod purposes under the heading "Prtissianism in Religion : the Crescent and the Cross." In this appeal the Moltammedaa religion is gratuitously strained in and held up to contumely. The religion of a hundred million of the King's subjects is vili- fied under the obnoxious designation of "Prustianism," an .I the Cross is pitted against the Crescent. Whatever may be the object of the authors of this extraordinary, not to say out- rageous, advertisement, they do not seem to relative the mis- chievous consequences of rekindling the old hatred. Nor do they appear to see that it shows a certain religious poverty In have to stiffen up Christianity and awaken charitable instinct by attacking another religion. The two great religions ens live and work side by side for the elevation of humanity with- out rivalry or rancour. But if this constant agitation for the sowing of discord between the followers of the two faiths, either by means of attempts to rob the Moslems of their places of worship or by reviling their Prophet and His teachings, is allowed to continue. there can be no prospect of the much- needed "peace and goodwill."—I on,, Sir, &c., Anna Asa. 2 Padova Place, S.W. 1.
[We cannot, of course, agree that Christianity has no right to proselytize. But there is no need for provocative language. —En. Spectator.]
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