The morning call., 1892-09-11
A BECGAR OF UNUSUAL FAITH.
An Oriental Way of Rousing Charitable
People TO Good Deeds.


New FORK Tribune.
''The recent arrival Of these bowling and
begging dervishes." said club man the
other day, brings back wildly to my mind
many of the sights saw In the far East
some year: ago, when / made trip around
the world. One of these dervishes bears a
striking resemblance in features to big
Arab whom met at Mecca He was stand
ing at the entrance 10 the shrine OF some
saint and shouting continuously to those
who came to worship there. We passed that
shrine early on the morning first saw him,
and when We came back at night he was
still at IL. Two or three days after that we
passed again. and he was crying Justify at
tie old stand.
II asked our interpreter who the man
was and what he shouted. and was in
formed that he was begging. Nobody gives
him anything remarked. He wants too
much, said the Interpreter. How muchY
| asked, About s57 In your money was
the reply. That's a pretty good lump to
ask for l said. surprised. What is he
shoutlng?' lie says this: Il am Abrek
Ram. the son of Ramdad, who dwelis in Ell
kalf, by the Persian Gulf. am far from
my home and without money. want S57
to take me back to my fathers roof. God
is good and is the father of all. / call
you all to witness that might just as we'll
ask 500 as not, but / am not greedy; S57
is all need to take me back to my fathers
house, and that will do. Remember, oh.
faithful, that to give to the poor is the only
sure way to heaven. The saint at whose
shrine ye come to worship. was sacrificed
by benevolence. Shame not his holy
name by refusing to let your hearts and
purses respond to the petition of son OF
the faithful, and always remember that ]
only ask for S57. when might just as we'll
r. lob sa A,.I H..
could just as easily send his child 500 as
S57, but only ask you for the smaller sum.
| might make this chance to do good cost
you deal more, but there is no greed in
me. Come, now, who will be the first to
win the blessed saints favor and honor his
shrine by faith and charity before l raise
my demandp
"This sort OF thing the man kept up In
cessantly for several DAYS. till the priests
of the shrine felt ashamed OF his noise and
requested him to stop. lest by his failure TO
get so large sum he should bring discredit
on the shrine through his importantly.
But the fellow would not cease, drawing at
tenton to his modesty in not asking more
than S57 and TO his unbounded faith in God
and the charity of the faithful. Our party
was considerably amused by the calm gall
Of the fellow. and one OF US pro-
him the sum he asked for. We
took up collection which amounted TO $50
and gave 1t to him, looking for him to col
lapse with surprise. But there was no sign
of a collapse. He counted the coin slowly,
handed back SO and remarked calmly:
Allah is great. l might have got 500 II
had asked him for it. but S57 was all l
needed and all l will take. Truly the saint
to whose shrine came stands high In para
disc Your reward will be correspondingly
great, and you should be glad that did not
make 1t cost you 500. Farewell and he
pushed his way among the crowd of pilgrims,
who made room for him respectfully, as for
a man of sanity faith and much In the favor
of Allah"