VI Seeking Recruits and Funds
CHAPTER SIX SEEKING RECRUITS AND FUNDS "If these great things are to be ach.i:ved we n:u~t pay what it costs. \\711:t will be the price? Undoubtedly it myolves gtvmg ourselves to the sn: ay of missionary problems and strategy with ail the thoroughness and tuelessness which have characterized the intellectual work of ~ose men W!lO h brought mast benefit to mankind. It will cost genume self-denIal. I:V~o sphere so much as that of extending the, knowledge a~d sway of Christ is the truth of His own word illustrated, Ez.cept a gr~m.of :"he~t fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if It dIe, It beareth much fruit.''' The First Two Decades 0/ tM Studtnt roluntur ~1Iovtmt1lt, by ] caN R. i\IOTr Once, \vhile in the capital city of Yemen, Sana'a, Zwemer was attempting to sell Scriptures. He was advised by a man whom he met on the street to go to the Casino where he could sell a number of books, the informer thought, to the Turkish officers. This proved true and he had soon disposed of some half dozen New Testaments. The officers had not had them long, however, when they wanted to return them and get the money. The missionary on asking the reason was told that the bartender was a Christian and he had said these books were not the genuine Injil but only an imitation put out by the Protestants. Zwemer asked who this man was and where he was from. It turned out he was a Greek from Crete. The young distributor of the Bible said at once, "No wonder he speaks against this book, because of what it says about the people of Crete. Vihereupon he read to the officers, "One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true."l The bartender contended that this was merely one of the corruptions of the New Testament and the real Greek New Testament contained nO such statement. The missionary had the answer for this. He produced a Greek Testament and convinced the bartender, who bought and paid for the Greek Testament. The laugh was on him and the Turkish officers kept their Scriptures, all the more anxious to read a book that was so applicable to present sltuations. Zwemer used to say that from this and many similar happenings he believed in "verbal inspiration." Certainly the Master Himself told his followers not to fear when called before authorities, as what they should say would be given unto them. The pioneers of the Arabian Mission depended upon such gnidance at every step. In spite of heavy sacrifice of life in the early years; the Arabian Mission was well established with four stations, several doctors and a number of 1. Titus 1:12-13. 2. Seven lives were sacrificed in the Arabian :Mission in a :period of about seven years. They were 8.3 follows: Rev. Peter J. Zwemer, died of e.f£eets of fever and debility. October 18, 1898. Rev. George E. Stone. died from heat a:poDlexy, June 28, 1899. Rev. Harry J. Wiersum. died a victim of smallDox. August 3, 1901. Ruth Zwemer. aged 4. died of dYsentery, July 7. 1904. Katbarina Zwemer, aged 7. dIed of dysentery. July 15. 19iJ4.. :Mrs. Marion Wells Thoms. M:.D., died of typhoid, ADriI 25, 1905. Mrs. Jessie Vail Bennett. died of typhoid• .Tanuary 21. 1906. 67
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