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chance witness anil Ik* has .seized every opportunity. The oilier «i.i\
1 stepped into his room where he was entertaining two of his relative
and there found him with a Koran open helore him proving that
Mohammed was a sinner and showing the great contrast between lum
and Christ as found in the Koran itself.
Hut persecution is just beginning. Daily he is insulted. Many laUe
stories have been circulated about him and ad sorts of things are dime
t«j make his life unpleasant. Men will not walk the streets with Inin
lur fear of being identified with him. The usual greeting of "Peace he
upon you” is withheld from him, but Ah tells us that he has never had
greater peace in his life and that even though he has lost all as far a>
worldly goods go, he is happier than he has ever been. He says that
die words and actions of the crowd do not bother him for he has some
thing that the people cannot take from him.

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How different is his whole outlook on life than the outlook of the
Arab Moslem! The great contrast is most vivid. In place of hate
and bigotry, one sees love and tolerance; in place of rank egotism, one
>ce.N humility and humbleness; in place of a mind uncertain of the future,
uiic sees a mind and heart at peace with Clod. In all his actions he i>
different and one wonders at the great change the presence of Christ
makes in a life. Some of the first Christians were called "these that
have turned the world upside down” and one can see very easily whv
charge was brought against them. Mav Cod send many more like
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Ali who will turn the world of Islam upside down, putting love where
there was once hate, turning Mohammed down and raising Christ on
high, rejecting the Koran with its “they did not kill Him and they did
nut crucify Him,” and putting in its place, “And they crucified Him."
in order that, "whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.”
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