"THE TURK IN TRIPOLI."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10302, 6 November 1911, Page 1

"THE TURK IN TRIPOLI."

LECTURE BY Dlt KARL ICUMM. Dr Karl Ivumm addressed, a crowded •meeting in His Majesty's Theatre yesterday afternoon on '' The Turk in Tripoli." Bishop Julius occupied, the chaif. Dv Ivumm prefaced his remarks with a brief history of the rise and progress of Mohammedanism, showing how it eventually made its entry into Africa. Tripoli was ultimately invaded, and its population of over ten millions was within a few years reduced by nineteentwentieths. At the present time t-ho once beautiful town- of Tripoli, the centre of a flourishing State, was merely a little oasis in a great desert. Mohammedanism was 3lowly but surely making its way into Central Africa. It was a remarkable thing that whereas that religion had been at a standstill for over 500 years, it was now, since the advent of the British and French into* Africa, making rapid' strides. The natives had formerly kept the Turks at bay for 500 years by warfare, but since the British had instilled into them a love for peace the Turks were obtaining all they desired without resistance. The one remedy was Christianity, and it was a recognised fact that wherever that doctrine and Mohammedanism clashed the Christian religion had always triumphed. Mohammedanism was dangerous because it was anti-Christian and anti-European, and no anti-Chris-tian religion could, ever have a good effect on a nation. There was a great possibility that within a few years a war would arise between the two religions, the last religious war of the Avorld. In fact, ten years would decide whether the latest children of Britain, the magnificent negro tribes of Central Africa, were to embrace Christ or Mahammed. It behoved the various Christian Churches to put aside all their differences and to unite in one solid band for Christ. Since his arrival in the colonies he had received offers of practical assistance from all the Australian States, and from Dunedin, while even Christchurch was beginning to take an interest in the great work. He hoped that all New Zealand would cooperate with him in saving the negro States, the latest colonies of the British-, from the destruction, the moral degradation, and the stagnation that would inevitably follow the advent of the Moslem doctrine: