lping his
people. The royal family and some officers favor indirectly if not
directly, modern education; and they have confidence in Christians. The
occupation of selling merchandise is being entered by Christians; they
have much prejudice to overcome but will likely succeed gradually.

Thanks to God, many of the old oppressions have passed away. Assyrians
can now build any kind of house they want; Moslems can no longer say
that they must walk or ride a donkey; they can wear clothes of any
style or quality they choose. No longer are Christians required to trim
their clothes in red to mark their inferiority. All these are the
fruits of the blessed gospel.

CHAPTER VI.

MISSION WORK AMONG MOSLEMS.

Mission work indirectly and slowly spreads among Moslem. The Koran
forbids Christians to preach to Moslems, and no Christian dared discuss
questions of religion with Moslems before the time of missionaries. To
attempt to show Christ's superiority of Mohammed was forbidden. If a
Moslem should say, "Mohammed was a greater prophet than Christ. Ours is
the true religion. You are infidels." The Christian with a timid,
downward look would reply "Yes sir, you are right." But the answer to
this assertion to-day is a firm "No sir." The Christian now sees truth
clearly and feels it his duty to uphold it. There is now free
discussion of religious questions. A Christian discusses with Moslem
priest if he chooses. And sometimes they call at the homes of Moslems
and read the Bible to them. The Christian feels it his duty to discuss
with any one who approaches him, as he possesses light which that one
needs. There is in one city an evangelical church in which all of its
members are Mohammedan converts, while many other churches have a few.
The spirit of these converts is that of martyrs. The Koran teaches that
any Mohammedan who denounces the faith deserves death, and that one who
kills the deserter has done a noble deed. Some of these converts have
suffered martyrdom and one who was killed after great torture, prayed
as his last words: "O Jesus we thank Thee that Thou hast made us worthy
to be Thy martyrs. Our supplication is that our blood may become as
seed to Thy church." No doubt God will answer this prayer in due time.
The seed is sown; the leaven is mingled and will in time, no doubt,
leaven the 9,000,000 Mohammedans.

The writer, a representative of the evangelical missions, wishes to
express his deep gratitude to the Am