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A Light for Islam

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 22, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 38.

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A Light for Islam

By T. E. BOWEN

T. E. BOWEN
One of the greatest strongholds confronting the Christian world to-day is that of Mohammedanism. The Moslem faith has lost three of its able defenders,—Mohammed Schukri Effendi, Sheik Achmed Keschaf, and Mohammed Nessimi Effendi,—who have been converted to Christianity, and have established a seminary in the German Orient for training missionaries to work among this people. Two of these learned men are brothers, and describe their conversion to Christianity and their determination as follows:—
“We have . . . worked through hundreds of books to get at the truth. We have examined every word in the Koran and the Hadith with great care, and have detected numberless errors. We saw it was wrong to continue Moslems. We have both therefore accepted Christ. We hope to lead our people to the same end, and are preparing to publish much for this purpose. We have seen in our journeys in Rumelia, Anatolia, and Arabia that the Moslem learned ones have always been put to silence. We confess our weakness, but are determined to work with what we have to wake the children of Islam out of error.”
“In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Lord God, King of worlds, thou who art lifted above time and space, the source of all and in truth our Father, take from our eyes and from those of thy other children the veil of deep ignorance, that our hearts may rejoice in the knowledge of the truth which thine only begotten Son, our Lord Christ, has revealed. Make dear to the hearts of all men the glorious teaching of thy holy gospel, that they all may have a share in its blessings and may be one in spirit and belief; that they may live and walk in the light of thy glory. Amen.”
May God greatly bless the work of these men, and use their efforts to break the power of this false system of worship, freeing many of its votaries to become children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Takoma Park, D. C.