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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 20, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 51.

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MOSLEM ZEAL.

[A Missionary to Egypt, in Herald of Light.]
A FEW months ago two Mohammedan teachers in a remote district of India, having an intense desire to spread their religion, conceived the idea of going as missionaries to England to convert the Anglo-Saxon race. They started on foot and pursued their journey under the burning sun. Through dangers and necessities, and amidst friends and foes, often hungry and penniless, they pressed onward. Once, at a dangerous mountain pass, they were captured by bandits and were about to be murdered, when they made known their mission and were permitted to proceed. At last the long, wearisome journey was completed, and on reaching England they visited a Moslem sheik who resides there. This man was acquainted with the disposition of the Anglo-Saxon with regard to this faith, and tried to send them back to their friends. Other difficulties appeared, for the only language they knew was the Pushtoo, yet they seemed undaunted and decided to find work at the Liverpool Docks where they hoped to be able to pick up enough of the English language to teach their doctrines. Think of the zeal and willingness to plod and suffer manifested by these two ignorant men!
Lord, pity the missionary zeal manifested by most Christians. How will we answer before God for our sloth and indifference with regard to converting the heathen. At present the Soudan and Central Africa are opening up to civilization, but the Moslem missionaries are pushing in ahead of the Christian and taking the numberless tribes for Islam. Where are the stout-hearted workers who are willing to take their lives in their hands and rush in ahead of these bloody men and take the heathen for God? Why listen to the siren songs of ease and home while your brother dies for bread? What keeps you away from the lost and the heathen but your unwillingness to suffer hardships for Christ? If the Lord sees in you a willingness to bear the burdens and hardships,He will surely send you out to help the scanty overworked laborers in the field. "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light."