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95:7.1 The [[Melchizedek]] teachings of the one [[God]] became [[established]] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_desert Arabian desert] at a comparatively recent date. As in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Greece], so in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia] the [[Salem]] missionaries failed because of their misunderstanding of [[Machiventa]]'s instructions regarding overorganization. But they were not thus hindered by their [[interpretation]] of his admonition against all [[efforts]] to extend the gospel through [[military]] [[force]] or [[civil]] [[compulsion]].

95:7.1 The [[Melchizedek]] teachings of the one [[God]] became [[established]] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_desert Arabian desert] at a comparatively recent date. As in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Greece], so in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia] the [[Salem]] missionaries failed because of their misunderstanding of [[Machiventa]]'s instructions regarding overorganization. But they were not thus hindered by their [[interpretation]] of his admonition against all [[efforts]] to extend the gospel through [[military]] [[force]] or [[civil]] [[compulsion]].

95:7.2 Not even in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China China] or [[Rome]] did the [[Melchizedek]] teachings fail more completely than in this [[desert]] region so very near [[Salem]] itself. Long after the [[majority]] of the peoples of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient Orient] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occident] had become respectively [[Buddhist]] and [[Christian]], the [[desert]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia] continued as it had for thousands of years. Each [[tribe]] [[worshiped]] its olden [[fetish]], and many [[individual]] [[families]] had their own household gods. Long the [[struggle]] continued between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia Babylonian] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar Ishtar], [[Hebrew]] [[Yahweh]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran Iranian] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahura_Mazda Ahura], and [[Christian]] Father of the Lord [[Jesus]] [[Christ]]. Never was one concept able fully to displace the others.

95:7.2 Not even in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China China] or [[Rome]] did the [[Melchizedek]] teachings fail more completely than in this [[desert]] region so very near [[Salem]] itself. Long after the [[majority]] of the peoples of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient Orient] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occident] had become respectively [[Buddhist]] and [[Christian]], the [[desert]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia] continued as it had for thousands of years. Each [[tribe]] [[worshiped]] its olden [[fetish]], and many [[individual]] [[families]] had their own household gods. Long the [[struggle]] continued between [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia Babylonian] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar Ishtar], [[Hebrew]] [[Yahweh]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran Iranian] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahura_Mazda Ahura], and [[Christian]] Father of the Lord [[Jesus]] [[Christ]]. Never was one concept able fully to displace the others.

95:7.3 Here and there throughout [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia] were [[families]] and [[clans]] that held on to the hazy [[idea]] of the one [[God]]. Such groups treasured the [[traditions]] of [[Melchizedek]], [[Abraham]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoraoaster Zoroaster]. There were numerous centers that might have responded to the [[Jesus|Jesusonian]] [[gospel]], but the [[Christian]] missionaries of the [[desert]] lands were an [[austere]] and unyielding group in [[contrast]] with the [[compromisers]] and [[innovators]] who [[functioned]] as missionaries in the [[Mediterranean]] countries. Had the followers of [[Jesus]] taken more seriously his injunction to "go into all the world and preach the gospel," and had they been more [[gracious]] in that preaching, less stringent in collateral [[social]] requirements of their own devising, then many lands would gladly have received the simple [[gospel]] of the carpenter's son, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia] among them.

95:7.3 Here and there throughout [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia] were [[families]] and [[clans]] that held on to the hazy [[idea]] of the one [[God]]. Such groups treasured the [[traditions]] of [[Melchizedek]], [[Abraham]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoraoaster Zoroaster]. There were numerous centers that might have responded to the [[Jesus|Jesusonian]] [[gospel]], but the [[Christian]] missionaries of the [[desert]] lands were an [[austere]] and unyielding group in [[contrast]] with the [[compromisers]] and [[innovators]] who [[functioned]] as missionaries in the [[Mediterranean]] countries. Had the followers of [[Jesus]] taken more seriously his injunction to "go into all the world and preach the gospel," and had they been more [[gracious]] in that preaching, less stringent in collateral [[social]] requirements of their own devising, then many lands would gladly have received the simple [[gospel]] of the carpenter's son, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia] among them.

95:7.4 Despite the [[fact]] that the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant Levantine] [[monotheism]]s failed to take root in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia], this [[desert]] [[land]] was capable of producing a [[faith]] which, though less demanding in its [[social]] requirements, was nonetheless [[monotheistic]].

95:7.4 Despite the [[fact]] that the great [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant Levantine] [[monotheism]]s failed to take root in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia Arabia], this [[desert]] [[land]] was capable of producing a [[faith]] which, though less demanding in its [[social]] requirements, was nonetheless [[monotheistic]].

95:7.5 There was only one [[factor]] of a [[tribal]], racial, or [[national]] nature about the [[primitive]] and unorganized [[beliefs]] of the [[desert]], and that was the peculiar and general [[respect]] which almost all Arabian [[tribes]] were willing to pay to a certain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba_stone black stone] [[fetish]] in a certain [[temple]] at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca Mecca]. This point of common [[contact]] and [[reverence]] subsequently led to the [[establishment]] of the [[Islam]]ic religion. What [[Yahweh]], the volcano spirit, was to the [[Jewish]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semite Semites], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba_stone Kaaba stone] became to their Arabic cousins.

95:7.5 There was only one [[factor]] of a [[tribal]], racial, or [[national]] nature about the [[primitive]] and unorganized [[beliefs]] of the [[desert]], and that was the peculiar and general [[respect]] which almost all Arabian [[tribes]] were willing to pay to a certain [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba_stone black stone] [[fetish]] in a certain [[temple]] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca Mecca]. This point of common [[contact]] and [[reverence]] subsequently led to the [[establishment]] of the [[Islam]]ic religion. What [[Yahweh]], the volcano spirit, was to the [[Jewish]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semite Semites], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba_stone Kaaba stone] became to their Arabic cousins.

95:7.6 The [[strength]] of [[Islam]] has been its clear-cut and well-defined presentation of [[Allah]] as the one and only [[Deity]]; its weakness, the [[association]] of [[military]] [[force]] with its promulgation, together with its degradation of [[woman]]. But it has [[steadfastly]] held to its presentation of the One [[Universal]] [[Deity]] of all, "who knows the [[invisible]] and the visible. He is the [[merciful]] and the [[compassionate]]." "Truly God is plenteous in [[goodness]] to all men." "And when I am sick, it is he who heals me." "For whenever as many as [[three]] speak [[together]], God is present as a fourth, "for is he not" the first and the last, also the seen and the hidden? "

95:7.6 The [[strength]] of [[Islam]] has been its clear-cut and well-defined presentation of [[Allah]] as the one and only [[Deity]]; its weakness, the [[association]] of [[military]] [[force]] with its promulgation, together with its degradation of [[woman]]. But it has [[steadfastly]] held to its presentation of the One [[Universal]] [[Deity]] of all, "who knows the [[invisible]] and the visible. He is the [[merciful]] and the [[compassionate]]." "Truly God is plenteous in [[goodness]] to all men." "And when I am sick, it is he who heals me." "For whenever as many as [[three]] speak [[together]], God is present as a fourth, "for is he not" the first and the last, also the seen and the hidden? "