still the old battle of the Cross against the Crescent, of Christianity against Islam. Yet we are not now bidden to go forth with the weapons of slaughter and death in our hands to lay low mortal foes. But, led by our Risen Redeemer, we are called to march forward under His banner, wearing the panoply of GOD and wielding the Sword of the Spirit, to wrestle not with flesh and blood but with the world-rulers of this darkness. Nor do we go now, as did our fathers, to rescue from the defilement of Muslim hands the empty sepulchre of a dead Christ. Nay rather, our duty now is in GOD'S might to deliver from the thraldom of sin and Satan those whose bodies were created to be

New Lands opening to the Gospel.

living temples of GOD'S Holy Spirit, and to bring them to drink freely of the fountain of the water of life eternal. GOD is opening land after land to us, and we are endeavouring to enter in, to bring the glad tidings of salvation through Christ to the Confucian of China and the Buddhist of Ceylon, to the Negro and the Hindu, to the Eskimo and the Red Indian. May GOD'S richest blessing descend—as indeed it has descended—on all such work. But for the great Muhammadan world,—for the lands

But little effort yet for conversion of Muhammadan world.

where Job and the earliest patriarchs, where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, served GOD,—where Moses talked with GOD face to face,—where the Redeemer of the world gave His life a ransom for many,—for Egypt and Arabia, for the Sudan and Morocco, for Palestine and Syria, for Mesopotamia and Afghanistan, 

for Turkistan and all Central Asia, for Persia, Asia Minor and Turkey,—how few are our efforts, how trifling our exertions, how limited the number of Christ's labourers! GOD grant that even these few Lectures, in spite of their feebleness and their many defects, may be used of Him to stir up in

Christ must conquer.

the hearts of some among us in Christian England something of the zeal and devotion of our Crusading forefathers, that many may offer themselves for service in this nobler Crusade. Then, wearing the Cross in our hearts and not only on our breasts, we shall go forth conquering and to conquer; and the Crescent shall soon fade before the glory of our returning Lord.

.... "Όταν αιγλα διοσδοτος  ελθη,
 λαμπρον φεγγος επεστιν ανδπων
 και μειλιχος αιων."

(PINDAR, Pythia, viii. 96, sqq.)