, =========T= H=E=L=U=T=H=E=;R,=A=N=P=IO=N=E=E=R========2=9 Extraordinary Missionary Zeal. - When one Anders Ohlsson, God's Letter-Carrier. of t he Moravian mis~ionaries who bad been sent to t he West I ndies, tbe1·e to work among the slaves, The following remarkable narrative is condensed foun d that he could not reach them as a free man, from an article which appeared in the Bible Society he became a slave himself, went with them to their R ecord several years ago : work, bore with them all their hai·dsbips, and t hus ·Although he had been in the country only a few gained their confidence and their willingness to hours and could not yet speak a word of T urkish, hear his message of God's love. - We have in this Anders Ohlsson did not hesitate to lay a gospel on example of self-sacrifice a faint r eflection of that the desk of each of the Turkish officials before infinite love of Jesus who, t o save the world, left whom, he appeared in the tedious business of securH is heavenly throne and glory and took upon Him- ing his residence permit. His guide and translator, self the form of a servant, humbled Himself, and better versed in the customs of Turkey, rather became obedient unto death, even the death of gasped at his boldness. But t here ,vas such a manithe cross. fest light of simple earnestness and love in his eyes Work Among the Blind in Egypt. - The that even the crustiest o:f officials accepted Anders's Church Missionary Society has received from Gin di debatable gift with politeness. So began the work Effendi I brahim, himself blind, an account of the for which, in a few months, he was to lay down efforts to help t he blind of Egyp t. T he number of his life. those in the country who are blind or who have only Bit by bit I came to understand something of one eye is no less t han half a million. Since 1923 how he had come to Turkey. He bad sold his little Gindi Effendi has been in charge of t his work. In farm in Sweden and set out into the world as a 1925 be opened a school n ear the Azhar University, distributor of Bibles and gospels, buying Scriptures the great center of Moslem learning. Not only did wi th his own money and giving them away to all be teach t he sheiks who came t o him to read the whom he met. H e had been on the road :five years Bible in Braille, but he also taught the.m some or more when he reached Constantinople. In some handicraft to enable t hem t o gain a living. Many countries he bad been well received; in others, of these sheiks after wards visited him to ask ques- notably in Roumania, he had suffered over a dozen tions relating to Christianity. Much success is imprisonments. But if was all one to Anders;· for hoped from this work, as the sheiks in t urn go out he never seemed to t hink of bodily comfort, ·and: his as teachers to the ·blind all over the country. prison audiences were more heedful than those of How . True! - " If we give our religion and the street-corner and market-place. church ' the leavings' of our t ime and strength, then After such experiences in Christian countries he they will indeed become things 'left.' If we give came t o Turkey, quietly prepared to suffer death our religion our best, it will be the most exalt~d and at t he hands of the Mohammedans, of whom he had blessed presence in our life." heard so many savage tales. But as he went up and Unprecedented Wealth. - Despite the prevail- down the streets of Constantinople week after week, ing. depression no nation in the world's history has distributing gospels and being met only with kindever controlled such enormous wealth of food, gold, ness, he formed a landlier estimate of the Turks. and material resources as America has to-day. . With "How I love the Turkish people I" he often used to only one-fifteenth of the world's population the exclaim. ''How kind they are 1 How much they United States has nearly one half the world's need to be loved !" gold; $28,485,000,000 in savings deposits; more Nothing could have been simpler than his than 2,000,000,000 bushels of corn and nearly method of work. He would stop in front of each 1,000,000,000 bushels of wheat in elevators and shop, which was seldom inore than a cubby-hole granaries; 8,000,000,000 pounds of cotton; 62 per opening on the street, and discover by a word or cent. of the world's petrole~, 70 pei: cent. of the two what language the proprietor spoke. Taking world's life insurance, and 75 per cent. of the from his satchel a gospel in that language, he would world's automobiles. Conditions may be bad in present it with the words, "A letter from God." As our country, but they are almost incomparably he passed down a street distributing these "letters'' better than they are in other parts of the world, to every one, there were quiet smiles at his simboth as to prevailing unemployment and adverse plicity; but they were kindly smiles. The utter economic conditions. childlike sincerity of the man made its impression
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