The Gospel Among Sumatra’s Mohammedans
Early this year among the Mohammedans in Battakland, Sumatra, an interest in the Gospel sprang up. One of our missionaries, himself a Battak, after three years' preparation in school at Singapore, studying the prophecies, some of which refer to the rapid spread of Mohammedanism, opened meetings at the home of a widow "hadji" (a person who has studied the Koran in Arabic and made a pilgrimage to Mecca) who heretofore had been very bitter in her persecution of all Christians. In a large room in her house the people thronged to hear the Gospel, Christians and Mohammedans alike mingling together. After studying the Bible about a month and weighing its harmonious and consistent truths, and learning that to be a Christian meant to be pure in life, this leading Mohammedan woman gave her heart to Christ and accepted the Gospel. Others are deeply interested, with good prospects of obeying also.