What a Prophet Is This Jesus
The Hausas near Lake Tchad, who are famous for their powers and energy, are aggressive Mohammedans. Recently the following remarks were heard from them referring to a missionary physician: “Why does the batuse [white man] love us? Why does he suck the death-wound when our own kith and kin would leave us to die?” None ventures to reply. “It is because of his religion,” says the first speaker, after a long pause. “It is because of his Jesus, the Prophet of the white man. He, this same Jesus, taught them in his sacred Book to love all men. Ah, what a Prophet is this Jesus! We have no love among us. We can not trust one another as the white man trusts. We would have fled and left the sick man to die—nay, was he not as dead? But the batuse would not leave him, for he loves his Prophet Jesus. What a Prophet is this! God is, indeed, great.”—Selected.