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iliem for His own? No! There might be a few who have heard the
message, there might be a few who know that there are Americans
,n Amarah who are teaching a new religion. But they don’t bother
themselves or even think far enough to seek anything new or better.
When any one of their number is sick and needs medicine they
might come. And if the medicine does some good and the patient gets
hctter the news spreads far and wide and the next day or week they
*ill flock to us by the twenties and fifties. And so we get a chance
to tell them the love of Jesus. Would they understand it? Very few
j-ct any meaning out of it the first time and some might come to hear
the message again, while others would never hear it again. But you
ire asking why? In the first place, we may answer, it is their religion

KOTA 11 BRIDGE OPENED

5*/ superstition and sin, in the second place their extreme ignprance, and
a the third place their bigotry. Will that gap of superstition, sin,
^oorance and bigotry ever be closed? How long will we have to wait?
But we are not waiting, we are working, working, just as the bridge
acn now are working with all their might—winding up the cables
•hich close the bridge. It goes so slowly one can hardly see it move
fccause they are working against the current, but inch by inch the gap
a narrowing. Yes, it soon will be closed and then this crowd with
jBcir burdens and the camels press and push one another to get onto the
tfklgcf and be the first to reach the other side.
And just so, do we feel that we are working against the current and
how slowly we are gaining ground, but we are going to get there,
ifchough we cannot see the final closing of that bridge. We have only
fcjun to dose that wide gap between Islam and Christianity; but
fc/ough faith, patience and perseverance we press on.