[114] “When Gibbon declared that Islamic motto ‘There is no God
but God, and Mohammed is his apostle,’ asserts an eternal truth
and an eternal lie, he truly expressed its duplex and inconsistent
character.”--Jesup, “The Mohammedan Missionary Problem,” p. 15.
[115] Jesup, “The Mohammedan Missionary Problem,” (published by the
Presbyterian Board of Publication, Phila.), p. 38.
[116] Schaff’s Religious Encyclopædia, Vol. II, p. 1542.
[117] Barrows, “The World’s Parliament of Religions,” Vol. I, p. 579,
the paper on Mohammedanism by Washburn.
[118] Jesup, “The Mohammedan Missionary Problem,” p. 31. Presbyterian
Board of Publication, Phila.
[119] Sale’s “Koran,” preliminary discourses, p. 110.