"It is true the Mohammedan nations in the interior of Africa, namely, the Bornuese, Mandengas, Pulas, etc., invited by the weak and defenseless condition of the surrounding negro tribes, still occasionally make conquests, and after subduing a tribe of pagans, by almost exterminating its male population and committing the most horrible atrocities, impose upon those that remain the creed of Islam; but keeping in view the whole of the Mohammedan world this fitful activity reminds one only of these green branches sometimes seen on trees, already, and for long, decayed at the core from age."--_Food for Reflection_, p. 37. [70] _Apology_, p. 34. [71] _Annals_, pp. 61, 224. [72] Sura iv, v. 33. [73] _Life of Mohammed_, p. 348. [74] _The City of God_, p, 91. Hodder & Stoughton, 1883. [75] _The Turks in India_, by H.G. Keene, C.S.I. Allen & Co., 1879. [76] _Annals_, etc., p. 457. [77] See Sura xxxiv, v. 32. The excepted relations are: "Husbands, fathers, husbands' fathers, sons, husbands' sons, brothers, brothers' sons, sisters' sons, the captives which their right hands possess, such men as attend them and have no need of women, or children below the age of puberty." [78] John xviii, 36, 37. [79] Dr. Fairbairn, _Contemporary Review_, p. 865. [80] _The Early Caliphate and Rise of Islam_, being the Rede Lecture for 1881, delivered before the University of Cambridge, p. 28. [81] _The Koran_, etc., p. 65. Transcriber's Note: The following section was originally at the beginning of the text. The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. STUDIES FOR 1891-92. Leading Facts of American History. Montgomery, $1 00 Social Institutions of the United States. Bryce, 1 00 Initial Studies in American Letters. Beers, 1 00 Story of the Constitution of the United States. Thorpe, 60 Classic German Course in English. Wilkinson, 1 00 Two Old Faiths. Mitchell and Muir, 40