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ing out a promise of others, if the workers were faithful in prayer and in witness ? “If Jesus has made atonement for your sins, then show us something in your life, which only a Christian and nobody else In the world possesses,” was a familiar challenge thrown at Christians by the Mohammedans., Was that not a challenge that should be met by prayer and daily surrender to Christ ? Marjorie thought of the class of young men who had come to the mission house for .tea, games, and discussion. Just by winning their friendship, the missionaries had gained opportunity to present the claims of Christ. When she was leaving her own station a few days before, the recompense for her hours thus spent had been given her. A young Mohammedan, one of this group, had come to say good-bye. “Why are you leaving?” he asked. “It is God’s will for me to go now,” Marjorie replied. “But here we need you,” he argued. “Here we need even more workers.” With her heart beating faster over the hint of promise in his words, Mar jorie replied: “When I go home I can tell people in America about the work here so more will pray for you. Perhaps there will be more workers then. And,” she hesitated, then said, slowly, “I shall pray for you—that you will receive the Lord Jesus.” He made no reply, but she was not discouraged. Knowing the usual bitter opposition stirred by the name of the Lord Jesus, she dared to believe that his silence was a hopeful sign. . . . But there still remained so much to do. As she thought of leaving it all, the burden grew even heavier. It was hard to leave. The need for workers was great; workers who were willing to go slowly; learning much of the people, their language, their faith and their customs; willing to walk under human authority as well as divine but with a burning zeal to get the gospel to un evangelized Afghanistan and all Cen tral Asia where 34,000,000 people live, practically unriached for Christ. She prayed again that the Lord would give her a message to praying friends in America and that through her He might be pleased to raise up prayer interest and workers. Perhaps from her old school, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, there might come some to carry on the work on the border of Afghanistan, the land of contrasts; “a land of lights and 'shadows . . , iron creeds and gruesome deeds”—awaiting the message of salvation. It has been said: “Our task [with Moslems] is to induce the proudest man on earth to accept a message he detests from a people he despises.” But the fact remains: “The heart of Asia is the greatest unevangelized region of the world!” How, then, is It to be reached?
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thdkneed, the problems, the discourage ments, and the dangers of mission work on the Frontier. She had spent three years working in a station of an inde pendent mission some miles fA>m Peshawar. She knew, now, .something of the fanaticism of the Mohammedan. She had had hurled at her the many questions familiar to those who work among Mohammedans: “Jesus admitted himself that he was not good (when he said) only God is good . . . It is blasphemy to call Jesus the Son of God—God does not beget, neither is He begotten of any one. . . Jesus died as a criminal—had he been God this could not have been,” and so on until her very soul grew weary. . But it had not been all hardship. There was the Mullah in far Afghan- istan whom she had never met but whose story was still told throughout the Frontier. He had been impressed with the One named the Word of God, the Spirit of God, because He was high ly spoken of and greatly praised in the Koran, After much sorrow in his life, the burdened Mullah came to Peshawar. There, in the public gardens, as he wept for his little son who had just died, a foreign man and woman stood by him and said, “Weep not; more sons will be bom to you; accept Christ and you will find great blessing.” Looking up, he found he was alone, but the words remained and he began to search for Christ. Long he sought—he could not ask Mohammedans and he knew no Christian. Then he heard of the Chris tian hospital in Peshawar and, invent ing an illness to enter, he found Christ. This step had meant complete sever ance from all the past—friends, rela tives and country, for he well knew that no follower of Christ would be tolerated in Afghanistan. It meant tak ing up life among foreigners—Indian and English—with their strange ways and speech. Bravely he and his young wife bore the separation and the per secutions. Then, one day, they had re turned to Afghanistan and no word had come from them since. Had they paid with their lives for their faith? Mar jorie wondered. But was not his com
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