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Thousands of Moslem Converts

Rev. S. M. Zwemek, D.D., LL.D,
O Nil of the great GUI Testament missionary preachers npeaks
of a day when “the plowman shall overtake the reaper.”
This is a great promise, indicating that the toil of prepara­
tion will be crowned with the fullness of harvest joy. The
Arabian mission has mil yel had the joy of the harvest, although
for many years plowmen have run deep furrows and Mattered
goodly grain with faith and prayers and with tears. To change
the metaphor, the missionaries of our mission express things as they
are when they say with the disciples, "Master, we have toiled all
the night and taken nothing, nevertheless at Thy word we will
let down the net." In other parts of the Moslem world there have
been far greater results, but no greater faithfulness and sacrifice.
It was my great joy during the past summer to visit for the first
time the Islands of Jaya and Sumatra where God’s sovereign grace
has manifested its power in winning many Moslems to Christ. The
fact that the churches engaged in this mission work nearly all
belong to the group of Reformed Churches holding the Presbyterian
system, made my visit the more interesting to me. The first meet­
ing I attended was a week-day prayer meeting at Modjowarno in
East Java. In a beautiful chapel built by the Moslem converts

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