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frioiids, uucl uumctlmob ho comes uluuc. Like tho resl of the stu-
dunts of Arabic, ho iiUends to tuko up a mosque lifter n time and
loud tho prayers. We have all been druwn out in prayer for this
young nuui. lie is less bigoted than the rest of those 1 have ro-
cently met. Will you please roinombcr him in prayer, and also the
others w)io have received portions of Scripture ?'
"This work has been carried on thruugh tho dayiimc. The
evenings have been given exclusively to the brethren as, when the
gates are closed, tho Moluimmedaus arc all outside the city. Mr.
Rhodes says : * I never knew tho people libten better than they do
now, but the Lord grant that some hearts may soon be touched by
tbe spirit.'"

• When we remember that there are more than twenty million
Mohammedans ia China, such a news item stirs to prayer and
strengthens faiih. Workers among and for Moslems need to en-
courage one another. None of us escapes the depressing power of
Islam and people at home do not realize Us effect. In the Niger
and Yoruba Notes, Dr. W. Miller writes on October 2nd, 1902 :

•• I have been much ancj sadly struck with whai I have lieard
lately of men who have come back after their first term of mission­
ary service amongst Moluunnicdani；, of the settled sadni：ss almost
to despair in even their countenances ; and 1 ask you if yuu see this
not to put it down to lack of faiih or love, but if m»i fully able to
sympathize with them through not having been ill their circum-
Btuiices, at least let it lead to earnest prayer and llic tciulcresl spirit
towards ihcin, for 1 assure you that fur a man frcbh from ihc 'Vur-
pities, Convcnlious. Schoolboys’ Camps, S. V. M. U. work, etc：, whore
Qod has boon wonderfully working1 through him. to be suddenly
launched inlo the utter deadline's of that superhuman enemy, Mo-
haininodanism's paralysing inllucnccs, to go on month after month
uiid see nothing but solid opposition or iiuli Hero nee ; to feel that men
arc living the most hopelessly awful lives with the mosi hopelessly
damning Creed, and yet to seem frozen and unable to in any way
jnect or overcome the forces against them ; l lell you iliai it needs,
what we have, but all use too litllo, the whole Mij^lity J#u\vcr of the
indwelling Holy Spirit to keep one from utter faiming-. It seems
more than hopclcbs, for men seem nut only to deliberately choose
evil, delight in it, and slop otherb from scc^iu^ good : but to be so
perverted in their souls that they cannot even have a conception of

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