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a minor fraction, as compared with the vast numbers of the of the rest rest of the Muslims, its missionaries have penetrated to the remotest parts of the earth, where they are striving day and night to uphold the banner of Islam, and the fair name of the Holy Prophet. Muhammad. Leaving aside India and Pakistan, more than a hundred missionaries are working in various well established mission centres, spread all over the world, where serious minded people are turning their attention to Islam. . In Europe and America, where, only forty or fifty years ago, there were people who regarded with a deep suspicion and prejudice everything connected with Islam, now, by the grace of God, and through the blessing of the prayers of the Promised Messiah, and the force of the great longing of his soul in this respect, there is coming to be visible a gradual change among these very people, so that a growing number among them have begun to book upon the Islamic Teaching with deep appreciation. The result is that the. Islamic principles, as an ideology, are rising higher and ever higher in the estimation of thinking people everywhere. It is of course true that this progress, as yet, is only like a seed just beginning to sprout out-as is always the way of God in regard to such 12