Ego autem difficillime bonus judex lego quod scripserim, sed aut timidior recto aut cupidior. Video etiam interdum vitia mea; sed haec malo audire a melioribus, ne cum me recte fortasse reprehendero, rursus mihi blandiar, et meticulosam potius mihi bidear in me, quam justum tulisse sententiam." St. Augustine. ISHMAEL OR A NATURAL HISTORY OF ISLAMISM AND ITS RELATION TO CHRISTIANITY BY THE REV. DR. J. MUEHLEISEN ARNOLD, FORMERLY CHURCH MISSIONARY IN ASIA AND AFRICA, AND LATE CHAPLAIN "O GOD HOW LONG shall the adversary do THIS DISHONOUR: HOW LONG The entire proceeds of this work will be given towards founding a PRINTED BY J. B. METZLER, STUTTGART. MDCCCLIX. PREFACE. Had it not been for the recent outbursts of Moslem fanaticism, it would almost have been forgotten, that Islamism maintains an unequivocally hostile relation to Christianity. We should doubtless, have continued to flatter ourselves, with having done our duty towards its followers, in praying once a year, that God might "have mercy upon all... Turks,... and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of His Word." But, if the calculation of the learned French infidel Bayle be correct,-that were the globe divided into thirty equal portions, nineteen of them would fall to the dominion of Paganism, six to Islamism, and five only to Christianity, -we must acknowledge that something more is to be done, and if so, the object of this work can scarcely be deemed futile or chimerical. It is not only, since the Mohammedans have so |