Moslem WomenCentral Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions, 1926 - 272 pages |
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Page 24 - We thank Thee that Thy Church unsleeping, While earth rolls onward into light, Through all the world her watch is keeping, And rests not now by day or night. 3 As o'er each continent and island The dawn leads on another day, The voice of prayer is never silent, Nor dies the strain of praise away.
Page 147 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 31 - I testify that there is no god but God ! I testify that there is no god but God ! I testify that Mohammed is the Apostle of God!
Page 4 - They heed their King's command. Onward the line advances, Shaking the hills with power, Slaying the hidden demons, The lions that devour. No bloodshed in the wrestling, — But souls new-born arise — The nations growing kinder, The child-hearts growing wise. What is the final ending? The issue, can we know? Will Christ outlive Mohammed? Will Kali's altar go? This is our faith tremendous, — Our wild hope, who shall scorn, — That in the name of Jesus The world shall be reborn...
Page 19 - Masses indeed: and yet, singular to say, if, with an effort of imagination, thou follow them, over broad France, into their clay hovels, into their garrets and hutches, the masses consist all of units. Every unit of whom has his own heart and sorrows; stands covered there with his own skin, and if you prick him, he will bleed...
Page 12 - ... death, he declared himself fully convinced that the increase of his illness was entirely due to his inability to swallow a sufficient quantity of this water. The Kaaba, which, as has been already explained, is only entered by a limited number of the pilgrims, was, if Mohammedan tradition be true, constructed in heaven two thousand years before the creation of the world. Adam erected the Kaaba upon earth on its present site, which is directly below that which it formerly occupied in heaven. Ten...
Page 47 - The bridegroom and the bride's wekeel sit upon the ground, face to face, with one knee upon the ground, and grasp each other's right hand, raising the thumbs and pressing them against each other.
Page 40 - But when ye divorce women, and the time for sending them away is come, either retain them with generosity, or put them away with generosity: but retain them not by constraint so as to be unjust towards them.
Page 31 - God is most great! God is most great ! God is most great! God is most great! I testify that there is no god but God...
Page 24 - ... the Pamirs at an elevation of from 10,000 to 20,000 feet above the sea. Although usually the mountainous parts are comparatively rainy and are often well covered with vegetation, the lowlands, which comprise most of the country, are intensely dry and almost absolutely desert. The people are equally varied, the fierce Afghan being as different from the sycophant Persian, as is the truculent Mongol from the mild Chanto of Chinese Turkestan. Yet in spite of all this, not only the physical features...