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11 - Raymond Lull- First Missionary to the Moslems by Samuel Zwemer · Raymond Lull- First Missionary to the Moslems

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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten of Raymond Louell, first Missionary to the Moslems,
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  Speaker 1: by Samuel's Wemer. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten. Who being dead yet speaketh, He who loves
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  Speaker 1: not lives not, He who lives by the life cannot die.
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  Speaker 1: Raymond Loull one step farther but some slight response from
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  Speaker 1: his church or his age, and Raymond Louell would have
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  Speaker 1: anticipated William Carey by exactly seven centuries. George Smith Neander
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  Speaker 1: does not hesitate to compare Raymond Lowell with Anselm, whom
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  Speaker 1: he resembled in possessing the three full talents uncommon among
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  Speaker 1: men and so seldom found in one character, namely a
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  Speaker 1: powerful intellect, a loving heart, and efficiency in practical things.
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  Speaker 1: If we acknowledge that Lowell possessed these three divine gifts,
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  Speaker 1: we at once place him at the front as a
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  Speaker 1: true type of what a missionary to Moslems should be today.
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  Speaker 1: He whom Helferic calls the most remarkable figure of the
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  Speaker 1: Middle Ages, being dead yet speaketh. The task which he
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  Speaker 1: first undertook is still being for the church unaccomplished. The
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  Speaker 1: modern missionary to Islam can see a reflection of his
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  Speaker 1: own trials of faith, difficulties, temptations, hopes, and aspirations. In
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  Speaker 1: the story of Lul, only with his spirit of self
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice and enthusiasm can one gird for the consult with
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  Speaker 1: this goliath of the Philistines, who, for thirteenth centuries has
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  Speaker 1: defied the armies of the Living God. Loul's writings contained
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  Speaker 1: glorious watchwords for the spiritual crusading against Islam in the
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  Speaker 1: twentieth century. How up to date is this prayer which
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  Speaker 1: we find at the close of one of his books.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord of Heaven, Father of all times, when thou
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  Speaker 1: didst send thy son to take upon him human nature,
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  Speaker 1: he and his apostles lived an outward peace with Jews, Pharisees,
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  Speaker 1: and other men. For never by outward of violence did
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  Speaker 1: they capture or slay any of the unbelievers or of
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  Speaker 1: those who persecuted them. Of this outward peace, they availed
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  Speaker 1: themselves to bring the erring to the knowledge of the
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  Speaker 1: truth and to a communion of spirit with themselves. And
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  Speaker 1: so after thy example should Christians conduct themselves toward Moslems.
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  Speaker 1: But since that ardor of devotion which glows in apostles
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  Speaker 1: and holy men of old, no longer inspires us love
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  Speaker 1: and devotion through almost all the world have grown cold,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore do Christians expend their efforts far more in
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  Speaker 1: the outward than in the spiritual conflict. England's war in
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  Speaker 1: the Sudan cost more in men and money a hundred
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  Speaker 1: times and all missions to Moslems in the past century.
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  Speaker 1: Yet the foremore is only to put down a Moslem
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  Speaker 1: usurped by fire and sword. The latter represents the effort
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  Speaker 1: of christenem to convert over two hundred millions of those
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  Speaker 1: who are in the darkness of Islam. There was a
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  Speaker 1: thousandfold more enthusiasm in the dark ages to rest an
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  Speaker 1: empty sepulcher from the Saracens than in our day to
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  Speaker 1: bring them the knowledge of a living savior. Six hundred
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  Speaker 1: years after Raymond Lowell, we are still playing at missions
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  Speaker 1: as far as Mohammedanism is concerned. For there are more
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  Speaker 1: mosques in Jerusalem than there are missionaries in all Arabia,
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  Speaker 1: and more millions of Moslems unreached in China than the
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  Speaker 1: number of missionary societies that work for Moslems in the
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  Speaker 1: whole world. In North Africa, where low witness to the truth,
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  Speaker 1: missions to Moslems were not begun again until eighteen eighty four.
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  Speaker 1: Now there is again daybreak in Morocco, Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers
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  Speaker 1: and Egypt. Yet how feeble are the efforts in all
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  Speaker 1: Moslem lands compared with the glorious opportunities, How vast does
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  Speaker 1: the work still be forests six hundred years after lull.
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  Speaker 1: According to recent and exhaustive statistics, the population of the
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  Speaker 1: Mohammedan world is placed at two hundred fifty nine million,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred eighty thousand, six hundred seventy two. Of these,
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  Speaker 1: eleven million, five hundred fifteen thousand, four hundred two are
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  Speaker 1: in Europe, one hundred and seventy one million, two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy eight thousand and eight are in Asia, nineteen thousand,
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and forty six are in Australia, seventy six million,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred eighteen thousand, two hundred and fifty three are
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  Speaker 1: in Africa, and forty nine thousand, five hundred sixty three
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  Speaker 1: are in North and South America. Three percent of Europe's
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  Speaker 1: population is Moslem, Asia has eighteen percent in Africa. Thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven percent. Out of every one hundred souls in the world,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen are followers of Mohammed. Islam's power extends in many lands,
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  Speaker 1: from Canton to Sierra Leone and from Zanzaba to the
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  Speaker 1: Caspian Sea. Islam is growing today even faster in some
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  Speaker 1: lands than it did in the days of Loll, and
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  Speaker 1: yet in other lands, such as European Turkey, Caucasia, Syria,
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  Speaker 1: Palestine and Turkestan, the number of Moslems is decreasing. In
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  Speaker 1: Lul's day, the empire of Moslem faith in Moslim politics
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  Speaker 1: nearly coincided. Nowhere was there real liberty, and all the
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  Speaker 1: doors of access seemed barred. Now five sixths of the
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  Speaker 1: Moslem world are accessible to foreigners and missionaries, but not
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  Speaker 1: one sixtieth has ever been occupied by missions. There are
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  Speaker 1: no missions to the Moslems of all Afghanistan, Western Turkestan,
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  Speaker 1: Western Central and Southern Arabia, Southern Persia, and vast regions
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  Speaker 1: of North central Africa. Mission statistics of direct work from
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  Speaker 1: Moslems are an apology for apathy rather than an index
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  Speaker 1: of enterprise. The Church forgot its heritage of Lull's great
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  Speaker 1: example and was ages behind time to Persia one thousand
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  Speaker 1: years after Islam, the first missionary came Arabia waited twelve
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  Speaker 1: centuries in China, Islam has eleven hundred years to start.
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  Speaker 1: This neglect appears the more inexcusable if we consider the
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  Speaker 1: great opportunities of today. More than one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: five million Moslems are now under Christian rulers. The keys
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  Speaker 1: to every gateway in the Massam world are today in
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  Speaker 1: the political grasp of Christian powers, with the exception of
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  Speaker 1: Mecca and Constantinople. Think only for example, of Gibraltar, Algiers, Cairo, Tunis, Khartum, Batum,
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  Speaker 1: Aiden and Muscat, not to speak of India and the
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  Speaker 1: farther east. It is impossible to enforce the laws relating
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  Speaker 1: to renegades from Islam under the flag of the Infidel.
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  Speaker 1: One could almost visit Mecca as easily as loaded Tunis,
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  Speaker 1: where the same spirit of martyrdom alive among us and
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  Speaker 1: inspired the pioneer of Palma. The journey from London to
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  Speaker 1: Baghdad can now be accomplished with less hardship and in
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  Speaker 1: less time than it must have taken lull to go
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  Speaker 1: from Paris to Bougia. How much more promising, too, is
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  Speaker 1: the condition of Islam today. The philosophical disintegration of the
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  Speaker 1: system began very early, but has grown more rapidly in
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  Speaker 1: the past century than in all the twelve that preceded.
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  Speaker 1: This strength of Islam is to sit still, to forbid thought,
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  Speaker 1: to gag reformers, to abominate progress. But the Wahabies drew
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  Speaker 1: a bow at a venture and smote their king between
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  Speaker 1: the joints of the hardness. Their exposure of the unorthodoxy
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  Speaker 1: of Turkish Mohammedanism set all the world thinking Abbat Ulwahab
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  Speaker 1: meant to reform Islam by digging for the original foundations.
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  Speaker 1: The result was that they must now prop up the House.
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  Speaker 1: In India, they are apologizing for Mohammed's morals and subjecting
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  Speaker 1: the Koran to higher criticism. In Egypt, prominent Moslems advocate
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  Speaker 1: abolishing the veil. In Persia, the Bobby movement has undermined
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  Speaker 1: Islam everywhere. In Constantinople, they are trying to put new
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  Speaker 1: wine into the old skins by carefully deluding the wine.
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  Speaker 1: The new Turkish Party is making the rent of the
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  Speaker 1: old garment worse by its patchwork politics. In addition to
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  Speaker 1: all this, the Bible now speaks the languages of Islam
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  Speaker 1: and is everywhere preparing the way for the conquest of
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  Speaker 1: the Cross, even in the Moslem world, and in spite
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  Speaker 1: of all hindrances, it is daybreak everywhere. The great lesson
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  Speaker 1: of Loll's life is that our weapons against Islam should
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  Speaker 1: never be carnal love, and love alone will conquer, but
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  Speaker 1: it must be an all sacrificing and all consuming love,
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  Speaker 1: a love that is faithful and to death take him
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  Speaker 1: all in all, says Noble. Lull's myriad gifts and graces
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  Speaker 1: make him the Evening and the morning star of missions.
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  Speaker 1: He presaged the setting of medieval missions and heralded the
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  Speaker 1: dawn of the Reformation. The story of his life and
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  Speaker 1: labors for Moslems in the dark Ages is the challenge
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  Speaker 1: of faith to us, who live in the light of
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  Speaker 1: the twentieth century, to follow in the footsteps of Raymond
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  Speaker 1: Lull and win the whole Mohammedan world for Christ. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter eight read by Alathia Karis. End of Raymond Lull,
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  Speaker 1: first missionary to the Moslems by Samuel's Wemer