“5.  They shall grant to all Moslems seeking their hospitality entertainment for at least three days.  But no Moslem shall require of them to make special cooking for him, and he shall eat of the common food with his host.

     “6.  If a Moslem seek asylum with a Christian, the Christian shall
     not refuse to shelter him, and shall not deliver him to his
     enemies.

“What Christian soever shall refuse these my requests, he shall not partake of the privileges of this covenant which I have made with the bishops, monks, and the rest, the followers of Christ.  And I call God to witness with my followers and command them to keep faithful to this my precept, now and till the day of judgment.

“The above was written in the presence of the under-signed persons, dictated by the Apostle of God, and written down by Mawiyeh Ibn Abu Sofian, on Monday, at the end of the fourth month, of the fourth year, of the Hejira, in Medina, peace be upon its Lord.

                             (Signed) “ABU BEKR ES SADIK. 
                                        “OMAR IBN EL KHOTTUB. 
                                        “OTHMAN IBN AFFAN. 
                                        “ALI IBN ABU TALEB.

And thirty-one other signatures.

“God be witness of what hath been said in this treaty.  Praised be
God the Lord of the Earth.”

In conclusion, I would urge that while it is to Mohammedans themselves that we must look to work out their ultimate regeneration according to the rules of their own law and conscience, Christendom can still do much to influence immediate results.  The day of religious hatred between Moslem and Christian as such is, I hope, nearly at an end; and though political strife is unfortunately renewing the old quarrel in North Africa, there is no danger now of its becoming on Europe’s part a crusade.  Christendom has pretty well abandoned her hopeless task of converting Islam, as Islam has abandoned hers of conquering Europe; and it is surely time that moral sympathy should unite the two great bodies of men who believe in and worship the same God.

England, at least, may afford now to acknowledge Mohammedanism as something not to be merely combated and destroyed, but to be accepted by her and encouraged—­accepted as a fact which for good or evil will exist in the world whether she will or no—­encouraged because it has in it possibilities of good which she cannot replace by any creed or philosophy of her own.  She can do much to help these possibilities, for they depend for the moment on her political action.  There is a good cause and a bad in Islam as elsewhere in the world, and though hitherto England’s physical help has been given all to evil, it has been through ignorance of the issues at stake; and I am confident that as she learns these, she will acknowledge the wrong she has unconsciously been doing, and repair while there is yet time her error.