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binds Mohammedans together is the unity of God, and they accuse 

 the Christians of 1)elievinu: in the partnership of Christ, which they 

 look upon with extreme contempt. Those are the main points of the 

 religion, and they have, I suppose, a greater hold on the lower orders 

 than the higher. They infuse a ^lohammedan spirit that keeps out 

 Europeans, and it is striking what immense military enthusiasm and 

 power a man receives when he becomes a ^lohammedan. 



Dr. Herbert Laxkester. — With regard to the question of 

 conversion, we had at the Church Missionary Society's Hospital at 

 Quetta a lady missionary who went out five years ago. She told 

 us that the only one woman then converted was a Parsee, and now 

 they were twenty-nine in number, most of whom were brought to 

 Christ through that hospital ; and she said they were not mere 

 nominal Christians, but M'ere really striving to win their fellow 

 women to Christ, and that some twelve or foin^teen women were 

 under instruction. 



Some time ago, when there was a rebellion in Uganda, some native 

 troops were sent for to come to Quetta, and they asked for copies cf 

 the book. They went up through the different tribes till they got 

 to Uganda. They saw there what an extraordinary change had 

 taken place, and they were told it was through the book that the 

 Christians could read ; and they came to our Medical Mission at 

 Quetta to ask for copies of the book. They saw so much difference 

 between the tribes along the coast of Uganda and those they found 

 in the coiuitry itself. 



Mr. Mitchell (lay missionary of Xorth Africa). — I think I 

 might say there are hvmdreds of converts amongst the Moham:- 

 medans of Morocco, and yet such a traveller as Francis Macnab, or 

 such a writer as Cunninghame Graham, might travel extensively 

 through the country without coming in contact with them at all, fc-r 

 the reason that they are secluded to some extent. I will not say 

 that they hide their light, but they keep it to themselves among 

 their own people, and the missionary societies have to be very 

 careful in publishing statistics or in mentioning any facts that would 

 lead to the identification of those converts. ^Nlau}' of them are 

 soldiers in the Sultan's army. Some of them have already laid 

 down their lives for Christ ; one M-as not long since fiogged to 

 death for refusing to acknowledge ^lohammed and to abandon 

 Christianity. So both these statements may be honest, and 



