And St. John upon the summit of a later day painted with a fuller glory the vision of the City that shall be:-- AND I SAW NO TEMPLE THEREIN: FOR THE LORD GOD THE ALMIGHTY, AND THE LAMB, ARE THE TEMPLE THEREOF. AND THE CITY HATH NO NEED OF THE SUN, NEITHER OF THE MOON, TO SHINE UPON IT: FOR THE GLORY OF GOD DID LIGHTEN IT, AND THE LAMP THEREOF IS THE LAMB. AND THE NATIONS SHALL WALK AMIDST THE LIGHT THEREOF: AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH DO BRING THEIR GLORY INTO IT. AND THE GATES THEREOF SHALL IN NO WISE BE SHUT BY DAY (FOR THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT THERE): AND THEY SHALL BRING THE GLORY AND THE HONOUR OF THE NATIONS INTO IT: AND THERE SHALL IN NO WISE ENTER INTO IT ANYTHING UNCLEAN, OR HE THAT MAKETH AN ABOMINATION AND A LIE: BUT ONLY THEY WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE. It is the purest form of the old-world vision of the 'Golden Age,' and our hearts acclaim it still. [Sidenote: Christ's Kingdom.] Here upon this present, prosaic earth to-day, God is laying by human hands the foundations, broad and deep and true, of {192} that City yet to be. To this world, where sin threw down the gage of battle, the Child was born. Here He fought and triumphed, and upon this earth was raised His cross, the token of the final victory. Here among men in _this_ present world, the battle must be waged, the Kingdom comes. Every sin, every falsehood, every injustice, every cruelty, every wrong, may challenge but they do not deny that Kingdom--Islam does. Bringing its ideals down to the level of our nature, it denies the best in man, and denies the Christ of God--the One who alone has triumphed and in whose triumph lies man's only hope. Give the world to Islam, and man's highest vision is gone for ever. [Sidenote: Christian and Moslem.] And so we go to meet the Moslem, and he stands before us strong, fearless, brave, determined. What have we Christians that we can say to him? What can we give? What has he already got?