other Mohammedan lands, making evident that the condition
of women under Islam is everywhere the same--and that there is
no hope of effectually remedying the spiritual, moral, and
physical ills which they suffer, except to take them the
message of the Saviour, and that there is no chance of their
hearing, unless we give ourselves to the work. _No one else
will do it._ This lays a heavy responsibility on all Christian
women.

"The number of Moslem _women_ is so vast--not less than one
hundred million--that any adequate effort to meet the need must
be on a scale far wider than has ever yet been attempted.

"We do not suggest new organizations, but that every church and
board of missions at present working in Moslem lands should
take up their own women's branch of work with an altogether new
ideal before them, determining to reach the whole world of
Moslem women in this generation. Each part of the women's work
being already carried on needs to be widely extended. Trained
and consecrated women doctors; trained and consecrated women
teachers; groups of women workers in the villages; an army of
those with love in their hearts to seek and save the lost. And,
with the willingness to take up this burden, so long neglected,
for the salvation of Mohammedan women, even though it may prove
a very cross of Calvary to some of us, we shall hear our
Master's voice afresh ringing words of encouragement: 'Have
faith in God. For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall
say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into
the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe
that these things which He saith shall come to pass, he shall
have whatsoever he saith.' 'Nothing shall be impossible unto
you.'"

That this wonderful appeal might reach a wider circle and that its
skeleton form might be clothed with the flesh and blood of real life
experiences and so be not a resolution but a revelation,--this book was
written. _May God give its message wings through His Spirit_

S. M. ZWEMER.

HOLLAND, MICH.,
February, 1907.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. HAGAR AND HER SISTERS 15

II. EGYPT, THE LAND OF BONDAGE 24

III. FROM