Excerpt from The Rebuke of Islam
Ten years have gone since this book was first brought out and studied. The present edition is not merely a reprint, it is a thorough revision. Chapter IV has been revised and largely added to (the mystical aspect of Mohammedanism has in particular been given greater prominence), and Chapter VII has been entirely rewritten. Nevertheless, it remains the same work. A few blunders have been corrected, but in general, the author has modified his positions by additions not by subtractions.
The title has been changed. It was with pain that the author found, when too late, that an un-designed double entente lurked in the original title. Nothing more was meant than that Islam was a perpetual reminder to Christendom of the latter's failure truly to represent her Lord. For if she had done so, Mohammed would have been a Christian. And the world by this time had been won for Christ. The Biblical sense of the word "reproach" escaped him - namely a thing so unspeakably vile that its very existence is a shame.
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