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'OR the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness ;

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thians i. 18).

(1 Corin

It was a Saturday in the latter part of the month of October in the year 732 of the Christian era. Two mighty armies were facing each other on a vast field in the neighborhood of the French city of Poitiers. All Europe was filled with dread. Hearts were beating with anxiety, and fervent prayers rose from the bosom of every devout Christian, while the Mohammedan world exulted in the almost uninterrupted victories of the Saracenic armies which. under the able leadership of Abd Arrahman, had crossed the Pyrenees, burnt the city of Bordeaux, and was advancing upon the wealthy city of Tours. It was on the plain lying between this latter town and Poitiers that the Cross and the Crescent had now met for a decisive struggle which was to determine the fate of Europe, and thus also, we may say, the fate of the civilized world. The result of the battle of Tours, or of Poitiers, in which the Franks, under the leadership of Charles Martel, delivered a crushing defeat to the Moslem host, is well known. The Cross, and not the Crescent, should remain the symbol under which the greatest civilization of the world was to accomplish its triumphant march, until every nation on earth had been subjected to its magic influence.

It is true that about seven centuries later the sign of the Cross should again be pitted against the triumphant Crescent which had again invaded Europe. But though the Mohammedans succeeded in capturing Constantinople, and thus gained a firm foot-hold in the south-eastern part of the continent, the glorious victories of the Hungarian hero, John Hunyadi, the champion of the Cross, saved