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A Young Mohammedan Studies the Bible

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 21, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 12.

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A Young Mohammedan Studies the Bible

By D. Burroway

India

KARMATAR.—A young Mohammedan who comes from time to time to our mission expressed himself as desiring to study the Bible. Press of work, the Bengali conference, etc., hindered our beginning these studies until this week, when I sent for him and asked if he still desired to study. He answered, “Yes, I am very anxious to know the true way.”
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AT CHARLESTON, W. VA.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AT CHARLESTON, W. VA.
In our first study we compared the prophecy of Christ’s first coming with its fulfilment in the New Testament. When I pointed out the prophecy of Isaiah telling us that Jesus was to be born of a virgin, which was spoken hundreds of years before his birth, the young man marveled; and as we read from David, whose writings are also in the Koran, he said, “It must be true.”
For fear of frightening him, I laid aside my usual custom of prayer before the study. After finishing the lesson and asking him to come again, he turned and asked if we could not have prayer. Never was I more thankful that I could pray in the language of these people. God came very near; and when we arose, the young man bade me a hearty good night, with tears running down his cheeks. Surely the testimony of the Lord’s servant has been fulfilled: “From quarters least expected will come voices urging us forward in the work of giving the world the last message of mercy.” D. BURROWAY.