that Islam shall not outlive two thousand years before
the Mohdy shall come, and the thirteen hundredth is
just commencing; nor do I believe their deliverance
will be so very long delayed. A “man of
justice” may yet restore their fortunes; but
it will hardly be by present violence or by wading
to Mecca through seas of blood; and when the end of
their humiliation shall have come, it may be found
that his true mission has commenced already, and that
the battle he was to fight has been long waging in
the hearts of those who have striven to reform their
ways and purify their law, rather than lament their
broken power and the corrupt vanities of their temporal
empire.
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[18] The Arabs believe that the Beni Ghassan, the Christian Bedouin tribe which opposed the Caliph Omar, migrated to Great Britain on the Mohammedan conquest of Syria.
[19] Since this was written astonishing evidence of political vitality has been given to Europe by Egypt, and there is now, I trust, little doubt that she will be left to work out her salvation in her own way. The phenomenon opens too large a vista to the imagination to be treated of in a note, but the Author would invite attention to it as a fact worthy of more consideration than all his arguments.