A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST FAMILY OF ANTIOCH OF PISIDIA (A CITY MENTIONED IN ACTS 13:14)
The Moslem Outlook in Persia
By F. F. OSTER
IT is truly wonderful how the Moslem attitude toward Christianity has changed during recent years. Only five or six years ago it was quite impossible to do very active missionary work among the Moslems without incurring great danger to one's life. To have open discussions in the bazaar was out of the question. Now all this is changed. Go where you may, you will find hearers who will gladly listen to the gospel of mercy and salvation through Christ Jesus.
The music director of the Russian army, with his family, has taken his stand upon God's commandments. There is also a Russian under officer obeying the Lord. The young Moslem who was so interested in Bible study has returned from Russia and he comes often to study the Bible with me. I have an entrance also among the Jews. Three congregations have permitted me to preach to them.
On a recent trip to some Moslem villages, they invited me again and again to remain and be their guest. From seventy to eighty men would listen for over an hour to the straight gospel. While traveling in company with a mullah of Maragha, I read to him the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, and part of the Sermon on the Mount. He listened with rapt attention, and then asked for the book and read for over an hour, until we reached our destination; and when he had finished, he said, “It is indeed a wonderful book.”
