ISLAM

182 ISLAM VERSUS CHRISTIANITY
London as the place where crime and hunger cast
English maidens by the thousand on the street A
modern writer, Dennis Hird, states : "For sheer putrid
rottenness London fashionable life beats a disused
graveyard." It was stated in September, 1923, that
the London Council for the promotion of public
Morality presided over by the Bishop of London, had
sent out special observers to Hyde Park with the
result that ten days' observation desclosed 746 cases of
impropriety, indecencey or immorality in the park.
The Bishop of Zanzibar has very recently given it as
his deliberate opinion that "London is a glorious city,
but it is terribly in the hands of Satan." The condition
of other great cities in Christendom is even
worse.
The life that is often led by work-people, operatives
and menials in the Christian cities reflects great shame
on Christianity itself. Those who have looked closely
into the private life of the workers at the great docks
or in the mines have a very sad story to tell. A highclass
English lady has just stated in the columns of
the Morning Post her personal experience of life as a
waitress and "Kitchen hand" at a restaurant. She
states
that what she saw was shocking and she found,
"the needless obscenity,
filth and confusion very
trying."
A strange feature of the Christian life came into
prominence in Europe during the Great War. The
Bystander stated that the plain fact was that the
raising of $ huge army for which no immediate occu-