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excites less than 70 persons of great intelligence and education. . The padres laboured in vain in this combat of reason in which the Muslim disputant fought single-handed but with God's succour attending him. Oneness vanquished Trinity, and in a way that wonder; fortunate were those who cared to attend, who lent ears, and then retained what they had heard in their minds. Padre Kamel Mansur who escorted me to the door on my retiring wished-I had been a. Christian missionary, for I had done the reading of. Christainity more studiously than had he himself. . I told him the truth: 'I have studied so as to gather you together in the fold of Islam-it is up to you to accept my witness and join the religion of Islam which is true with God. . The gist of our debate: I began as follows :As stipulated by Dr. Philips it is incumbent upon me to debate the matter with the authority of the Bible. In my estimate, as Dr. Philips is aware, the text of the Bible is adulterated by foreign influence. Christians pin their faith on Jesus' redemptive death. I, on the other hand, insist that God as is wont of Him with prophets, has saved Jesus from death on the cross. People made. They abortive attempts on the life of Abraham. thrust him into a blazing fire. God put out the fire. "Jeremiah was gagged and thrown into a well" writes Dr. Zwimer in "Wonderous Mystery”, “but. God saved him". "Similarly God saved three companions of Daniel who were gagged and pushed into a blazing furnace. " (page 67). In the same 38