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NEGLECTED ARABIA 7

One thing after another prevented the sending of this letter, and
now I wish to add just another paragraph. Almost two weeks’after
Naeema died, death came to claim another from our small circle, this
mne an older man who had been with us, from time to time, and whom
wc might consider an adherent but of whom we did not feel that we
could confidently say that he was a follower of the Lord Jesus. But if
wc do not feel confident to call him a Christian neither are we prepared
lo say that he was not one. Two weeks before his death he sent a
request, by his wife, asking us to sing a certain hymn and to remember
him as we did so. The hymn begins about like this, “He who prays in
Jesus' name, believing, cannot be disappointed." He was an ex-Turkish
soldier, a Kurd, about sixty years old, and full of superstitions and
traditions, and all these facts would account for many things that

seemed out of place in the life of a follower of the Lord Jesus, but the
Uct remains that he claimed to believe in Christ, and that he called
biinself a Christian. But the Moslems at first refused to take him to
ibe mosque, to pray over him and to bury him which would seem to
pfove that he did witness in some way to his faith in Christ, and as
•c think of him we remember the words of Jesus, "He that is not
gainst us is for us."
“For the love of God is broader
Than the measure of man’s mind;
And the heart of the eternal
Is most wonderfully kind."