Converts from Mohammedanism

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 30, 1908

Converts from Mohammedanism

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Sun, Mr. S. M. Zwemer, replying to the statement of another correspondent of that journal to the effect that there were practically no results from mission work among Mohammedans, gives the following interesting statistics in reference to work among that people:—

The fact is that there were converts from Islam to Christianity even before the death of Mohammed, and have been ever since in all countries where the gospel has been preached to Moslems. In North India there are over two hundred Christian preachers and pastors who once were followers of Islam; in North Africa at one station thirty Moslems became Christians in 1906; in Sumatra the Rhenish mission has 6,500 converted Moslems, 1,150 catechumens, and eighty organized churches; while in Java there are to-day 18,000 living converts from Islam, and between three hundred and four hundred adults are baptized every year.

Mr. Zwemer closes his article with the following pertinent remarks:—

The work of reaching Moslems with the message of Christianity and Christian civilization is sufficiently difficult without the cry of defeat being raised by those who are at home, while those at the front are winning the battle inch by inch.