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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 31, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, Nos. 43, 44.

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H. DIRKSEN

By H. Dirksen

By the Caspian Sea

LITTLE evangelizing has been done among the Moslems of the Caucasus. An American missionary is now writing the first Christian tract for the Moslem Tartars, who are numerous here.
One apparently honest Mohammedan has been visiting our German-Russian meetings here. He is a member of the police force of the city. His heart has been much softened by the advent truths. Conversing with him, through an interpreter, he told me that he had been reading the Bible for six years, and believed it. I asked him whether he now accepted the forgiveness of sins through the blood of Christ. After thinking a while, he said, "I do not know."
The average Mussulman believes that he comes to God through his good works. We read to this man the text, "No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him." I tried to tell him that we can come to God only as we yield to the drawing of His Spirit, and that thus salvation is dependent upon the mercy and goodness of God, through the merits of Jesus Christ. He seems quite convicted, and we have hopes of him.
Another Mohammedan exclaimed, "If I should do as you preach, my fellows would shoot me." But God knows each Mussulman heart, and will yet do a great work for many of them.

H. DIRKSEN

Baku.