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132 on a top priority basis. But even then a Eritisher would never meet an Indian Christian on the same social level on which he would, as a matter of course, be prepared to meet a German atheist. If the mission of Christianity was to remove all distinctions and to bring humanity on a common level of equality, why Christianity even in the best days of its glory, only deepened the national and racial schisms. . Not only is there no question these days of the. Europeans and the Asiatics, or Africans, standing on a footing of equality, the European Christians have persecuted even the European Jews as if they were not human beings. . On the other hand, the feelings of equality engendered by the Islamic teaching, wherever it has gone, is a matter of history which few would venture to deny to this day. We have thus the act of God, the evidence of history, repudiating the claim of these Christians that the mission of Jesus. Christ was I confined to the "lost sheep of the. House of Israel" but extended to the whole of mankind. . History itself stands to prove that this divine purpose has been and is being fulfilled by Islam. . Since, however, cool winds bearing glad tidings begin to bolw some time before the advent of a promised reformer, in the Christian era, when there came a hint of the great revolution to be