At one time I gave a Mohammedan a New Testament on condition
that he would read it. He was a Turkish official, but he
promised that he would do so. I saw him a year later, when he
came to me like Nicodemus by night. I said to him, “Have you
read the book I gave you?” He replied, “Yes, I have read it
through four times, and it gets hold of me every time right
here”--putting his hand upon his heart. “I believe that is the
religion which must ultimately be accepted by the world as the
true religion; it seems to me that it is the only religion.”
He went out and away and he is to-day an official of the
Turkish Government. He is a representative of a great class in
the Mohammedan world who are beginning to have an intelligent
knowledge of Christianity.--JAMES L. BARTON, “Student
Volunteer Movement,” 1906.
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