to draw the sword lest the millions who owe allegiance to the True Prophet again arise in their might ready to die, because of all men they hold life light as compared with their faith.
There is a probability that if Charles Martel had not defeated the Mahometans at Tours, there would have been a mosque in London instead of St. Paul's cathedral. And if that had been the case, it is logical to hold that we would have been taught, and would today be busy instilling into our children the story of Mahomet's revolt against the praying to many gods. You can figure the way things would be, the books that would be written about the story of the camel driver; the tale of his revolt against the three hundred and sixty odd gods set up for worship; the tale of the stone that fell from Paradise when Adam was cast out; the legend of the wonderful stone that rose and sank, serving as a movable floor for father Abraham as he built the temple walls; the celestial light that flooded the world when the child Mahomet was born; the quenching of the sacred flame of Zoroaster that had burned for a thousand years when Mahomet first saw the light. Instead of the "Golden Legend" of Longfellow, we might have had a legend telling of the child Mahomet who could run about when he was seven months old, and at ten months could hold his own with bow and arrow against any child; who at nine months could not only talk, but was so filled with wisdom as to confound all who heard him. There would be poems on the
