A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 24
24 commanded this Prophet to attack them in their strongholds to prove that his triumphs were secured by the Grace and Help of God and not because the enemy laboured under a disadvantage in attacking him in his home after undergoing the hardships of a long desert journey. Then was fulfilled the other part of the saying of Jesus, for, whichever way he turned victory kissed his stirrup and he vanquished his enemies in their very homes and “on whomsoever he fell he ground him to powder. ” He who shone forth from Mount Paran with ten thousand saints, in whose right hand was a fiery law which consumes all impurities of the flesh and turns the grossest heart into pure gold, concerning whom Jesus had said, “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. How be it when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come;” ∗ and whose servant every prophet is proud to call himself, is the self-same Muhammad, the Holy Founder of Islam, who to-day is called a robber and a tyrant who dyed the surface of earth with blood. This, however, is not to be wondered at. The enemies of God are ever cast in the same mould and it is customary with them to find fault with all things. John came neither eating nor drinking and they said, “He hath a devil. ” The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they said, “Behold a man gluttonous and a wine-bibber, a friend of ∗ John xvi: 12, 13.