The Heart

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 28, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 47.

From Sierra Leone to Canton, and from Tobolsk to Singapore, the faithful spread their prayer-carpets, build their houses, and bury their dead toward the meridian of Mecca. In Russia, Moslems turn to the south to pray; at Zanzibar they look northward to the holy city; in Shensi and Yunnan, millions of Chinese Moslems pray toward the distant west; and in the wide Sudan, they look eastward to the Beit Allah and the Black Stone; one vast Moslem brotherhood kneeling in concentric circles toward the great religious capital of Islam.