Page 374 - Neglected Arabia 1902-1905

I want to give you the outlines of the different kinds of talks in
which the Gospel was directly presented. Such talks were many, but
I shall give you only a few typical examples. Let them teach you to
sympathize with us in our difficulties and to rejoice with us in our
successes.
I. A government official of good education and zcide experience. •
Has spent many years at Constantinople and knows the ways of the
Franks. Very cosmopolitan in his tastes, and progressive in his think­
ing. He is of the compromising class and can hold a contradiction
without wincing. Granted the Divinity of Christ and the Trinity, but
said those two doctrines were only aspects of one truth accommodated
to Christian modes of thinking and indicative of God’s plan in his-
tory. Thus he was a true Sabellian and was met accordingly. He is
in reality a free-thinker, though he can quote the Koran very piously.
He never prays except in company.

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