The study of the symbols of this bond of uniformity—not of union—is illuminating:—[Sidenote: 1. Creed] The _Creed_, binding to the God of Islam through the Apostle of that God; [Sidenote: 2. Prayer] the daily _Prayer Ritual:_ it has been truly said that “each Muslim is a Church,” it is no less true that the Muslim world is a Church, bound indissolubly by this uniform service of devotion; [Sidenote: 3. Quran] the _Quran_ and [Sidenote: 4. Fast] _Ramadhán_, the Book, and the Fast which commemorates the gift of the Book; and above all, [Sidenote: 5. Pilgrimage] the _Pilgrimage to Mecca_, the local habitation of Islam, sublime notwithstanding the apparent foolishness of the ceremonial. “Thither the tribes go up,” from Turkey, Syria, Persia, Afghanistan, India, China, Egypt and other North African lands, and Arabia herself. National distinctions are forgotten; slave and master travel as brother worshippers; Islam feels her solidarity through the far-seeing provision of the centralization of her religious life, in the city which is sacred to the memory of the Apostle. The fact that Islam is broken up into as many sects as is Christianity, does not affect this solidarity so greatly as might be supposed from the experience of Christianity; in face of the Unbeliever the Faithful stand a solid army, the separations touch none of these symbols of unity. A solid army confronts the world. It has been asserted by one who knew Islam well, that the conversion to another Faith of an insignificant Muslim in an obscure village is known and mourned (or resented) over the whole Muslim world. However that may be, the solidarity of Islam is a grave and a suggestive fact; and the Faith which hopes one day to win it, would do well to oppose the statesmanship of Muhammad with a statesmanship and a wisdom equal with his. II ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY WHEN YE PRAY, SAY— _Father, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins: for we ourselves also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation._ Amen. The great Prayer of Christianity. 1. MUHAMMAD AND JESUS. “_Jesus is no other than a servant, Whom We have favoured with the gift of prophecy; and We appointed Him for an example unto the children of Israel (if We pleased, verily We could from ourselves produce angels, to succeed you in the earth), and He shall be a sign of the approach of the last hour; wherefore doubt not thereof._”