Christian herald and signs of our times (1886) (14780072014)

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Title: Christian herald and signs of our times

Year: 1886 (1880s)

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Publisher: (New York, The Christian Herald)

Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association

Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University

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tween them. It was Dilawars delightto accompany his friend on his preaching excur-sions. One incident from among others, relatedby Mr. Hughes, shows the character of the as-sistance he rendered. Mr. Hughes says : Weencamped close to a well-known shrine wherethere was a mosque and a school of divinity.We were soon visited by the Moslem priest andhis students. Dilawar was quietly seated in thecorner of my tent as I commenced an expositionof Christian truth. To my great annoyance, heinterrupted my discourse and engaged me in areligious discussion. The people were intenselyinterested, while I was somewhat pained at thespirit of opposition which seemed to character-ize his conversation. When the crowd becamethoroughly interested he threw off the mask ofan inquirer and vigorously attacked Mohammedand his religion, quoting passage after passagefrom the Koran and the traditions in the originalArabic, to the astonishment and the complete 412 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. July 1.

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Starving Irish Peasants Hailing the Relief Ship. Levuka, the Capital of the Fiji Islands. discomfiture of the moulvies of the place. Whois he ? Who is he ? said one after anotherin suppressed whispers, when an old man of thecompany exclaimed, It must be Dilawar. Iwas often distressed at his polemical spirit. Every man to his work, he would say. It ismine to cast down ; it is yours to build up. TWENTY DOLLARS FOR SMILES. In a recent sermon, while expounding the pas-sage, Delight thyself in the Lord (Ps. 37 : 4),Rev. Sam Jones said : Down in a town inGeorgia, where I was a pastor of a church, therewas a carriage-maker, and he called up all hishands one Christmas eve and had a full settle-ment with them. After he had settled with allthe hands he called back a yellow boy, Jerry,and said to him, Jerry, come here; here istwenty dollars, and he handed him a twenty-dollar gold piece. Jerry said, Why, boss,youve paid me once. I paid you for work-ing, but this twenty-dollar gold piece is for th

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