Refutation of the Allegation of Insult to Jesus Christ — Page 2
2 fast as the ordinary population, and that the native Christians now number a million of souls. ” 2 In 1897, a famous American evangelist, John Henry Barrows, was invited to visit India. He made a stormy tour and delivered lectures at many places. In these lectures he painted a picture of Christian Empire’s greatness in majestic words, and very proudly he talked about Christianity’s progress in the Islamic countries. He stated: “…I might sketch the movement in Mussalman lands, which has touched with radiance of the Cross the Lebanon and Persian mountains, as well as the waters of the Bosphorus, and which is the sure harbinger of the day when Cairo and Damascus and Teheran (sic) shall be the servants of Jesus, and when even the solicitudes 3 (sic) of Arabia shall be peirced, and Christ, in the person of his disciples, shall enter the Ka‘bah of Mecca and the whole truth shall at last be there spoken, 2 The Missions, of the Church Missionary Society and the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society in the Punjab and Sindh, by the late Rev. Robert Clark, M. A. , published by Church Missionary Society London 1904, page 155 3 Probably ‘solitude’; seems to be a misprint. [Publisher]