safety on what would correspond with the date of Sept. 20, 622, was received with joy by the citizens, and, a few days later, was joined by Ayesha. The flight is known as the Second Hegira, an outstanding feast in the Moslem year. Within the city, where the camel on which Mahomet rode first knelt, was built Mosjed al Nebi, the Mosque of the Prophet, at first a structure plain to severity, but later added to and adorned, until it became one of the famous buildings of the world, for its associations if not for its architectural splendor. As Islamism acknowledged Christ as one of the prophets, many Christians enrolled themselves under the banner of Mahomet.
II. THE FIGHT FOR SUPREMACY
It has been seen that one of the early precepts of Mahomet was the adjuration, "It is good to overcome evil with good. and it is evil to resist evil with evil." That is strikingly like the doctrine of nonresistance in the Christian, "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good," and "Do good to them that hate you." It is oddly at variance with the later Mahometan manifesto given at Medina, the world challenge which ran: "I the last of the prophets am sent with the sword. Let those who promulgate my faith enter into no argument or discussion, but slay all who refuse obedience to the law. Whoever fights for the true faith, whether he fall or conquer, will assuredly receive a glorious reward." And again,
