investigation which we appeal to our Muhammadan friends to make, has been brought to a close. What we maintain here is that, according to the witness of Muhammad and the Qur'an, the true faith in the Unity of God, and all that that implies in the way of submission to His revealed will (the true Islam) existed before the day of Muhammad, and independently of the giving of the Qur'an; and that the teaching of Jesus was nothing but this true Faith and that he demanded of his followers nothing but the assumption of this attitude towards God.

What we have said above as to the witness of the Qur'an to the existence of true believers before the time of Muhammad is borne out by the fact that Muhammad called men to embrace Islam, that is, to acknowledge that there is but one God, and to yield themselves to Him in accordance with His revealed will, before he had received the full and complete revelation of the Qur'an. He claimed that he was a true Mu'min and recognized those who followed him as true Mu'minun, while the whole Qur'an was not yet given. We cannot suppose that he believed himself to be still learning what the true religion of God was. He thus distinguishes between the attitude of the soul to God, which is the true Islam, and the further development and application of this to the various circumstances and relations of life; which development and application has

been carried on after him by the Muhammadan schools of theology, till it has crystallized into the Muhammadan Faith which we know and see. Further; according to Muhammad and the Qur'an, this true Faith and this correct attitude towards God, were in the possession of the Christians in the time of Jesus, and had Christians remained steadfast in the faith which Jesus taught, they would have remained true Mu'minun, and have continued to practise the true Islam.

We therefore ask our Muhammadan brethren to investigate the Christian records and find out for themselves what it was that Jesus actually taught, and what He really claimed, and to remember that no intelligent man can honestly accept Muhammadanism as the Religion of God, until he has made this investigation, and has been personally convinced that Christianity as taught by the Christian Church, is not in accordance with what Jesus taught, and is contrary to the Christian Scriptures, to which Muhammad witnessed as being a genuine revelation from God. He cannot shut his eyes to this question and say that it has been decided and settled long ago, and yet remain an honest seeker after truth. For, as we said before, the grounds on which Muhammad appealed to the men of his generation still remain the grounds on which Muhammadanism appeals to the intellect and heart of the individual to-day.