CONDITIONS IN MOROCCO

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 44.

CONDITIONS IN MOROCCO.

A MISSION worker in Morocco, writing to the Pentecost Herald, gives the following dark picture of the conditions which he finds in that benighted country:—

We have witnessed some awful sights since coming to this land. In their gatherings for heathen worship, I have seen hundreds of people dancing to a tune played on native instruments, which sounded as if the music was written in hell and composed by some demon.

While the people danced men took hatchets and chopped their heads open, until the blood streamed down all over their clothes. Men, women, and children would then come running with bread and soak up the blood and eat the bread.

At another feast they brought into the ring where they were dancing, a lamb; and this was torn, limb from limb, by the devotees, even the insides of the lamb were torn out and all was eaten raw by the people. They looked as if they all were truly devil-possessed. They ate the raw meat of the lamb until nothing but the skin was left.

A Cabin in Barbados. "Be It Ever So Humble, There Is No Place Like Home."

With such sights as these our hearts are pierced through; we turn away weeping and praying that God may open their blind eyes and let the Gospel shine in on their hearts.

We trust the time will soon come when this land shall have a Gospel messenger in every village. There are many places where no messenger from God has ever reached the people. O, that God would stir up more of the young people in America to become soul-winners for Jesus among the heathen!