The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-07

The New Turks at School
During my stay here I have Vlsitet
The college. 1t is beautifully located
the buildings being situated on tn
bluffs south of Beirut and running
from them down TO the sea. STAND
ing upon the campus, which conta II
about fifty acres, one faces the glorl
Gus Mediterranean, and at his bach
are the s~nOW-capped mountains Q
Lebanon with the rich vegetation
climbing their slopes. The institu
ton has a gymnasium, tennis court!
and good athletic grounds. It's stu
dents play foot ball, baseball ant
cricket. They are full Of college sp r
it and have their college papers an(
college songs. Their college yell il
as follows:
Rah. Rah! Rah.
Rip. Rah. Rec,
Boom. All. Boom. All.
S. p. G..
The boys have a silver cup which
is contended for by the various ath'
Iletic teams, and these Persians
Greeks, Syrians, Arabs. Egyptians, At.
menians and Turks are being welded
into n brotherhood by the hare
knocks Of foot ball and the track.
Ciyiiizing the Moilamnledans.
The Beirut College is an American
college and a Christian college as
well, but it does not attempt to prose.
lytize, and the Mohammedan car
come to it without changing his re.
|ligion. 1t insists only that every one
who goes through its courses shall
chapel and the Bible classes
study ng the Bible as one of the grea1
influences in the work Of the world
1t is not long since the students, who
believe in Molaammed, struck agains'
these regulations. They refused tC
90 10 chanel and took AN oath mot RI
attend the Bible classes. The strike
created a sensation, and for a time i
seemed as though it might do serious
damage. The faculty, however, head.
ed by the president, DR.. Howard S
Bliss, insisted, saying that the schoo
was a Christian college. They de.
manded that ali students must at
tend the religious services, and the
result was that most of the striker
came in and the college has gone
along on its original lines
In talking about this to one Of the
MOhammedan students DR.. Bliss said
Our college was established to give
the M"Ohammedan world the best tina
the Chr stian world has. Our aim
is to make Of Vol broad-minded, in
teiligent men whether you continue
to be Moslems or Christians. We
believe that the pest thing we have
is our religion, and we are bound tc
81 SOu hIIoN udC 1t IS. "notnc1
You accept it or not rests with your.
self. If upon Investigate on you still
think the Moslem religion the best
we believe that the knowledge you
have of u religion will make yor
better and broader Moslems. Relig.
ion is for man, not mar for religion
and we ant you to rave the train
ing which will make each one of YOU
the best man, whether he be CHRIS
tan or Moslen."
Today the Mohammedan students
attending the services look upon them
as largely educational, and they study
1.-THE Bible as such.
The Spread OF Education.
h influence Of colleges like This
from villages all over the Turkish en-
pire and from those of India and
Persia, as we'll. Going home. each
forms a little hotbed for the growtI
of independent thought, and civilized
ideas are spread in other ways. One
OF the great means of such distribu-
on is the annual pilgrimage to Mecca
which is attended by about half =
million Mohammedans from all part
of the Orient. At tina time Mecca
becomes a great camp meeting or
push meeting, such as our armer
nave IN Virginia The people come
together and gossip. They discnss
the crops and ask one another how
tney are getting along. Hasyan Ali
or Egypt says to Mohammed of
making money, and how does your
government treat you Mohammed
repl es that the Turks are taxed "a
ueatn' out they hope for much under
the new sultan. Thereunon uancnI
says that the English have cut doun
the taxes and that the church has
plenty Of money in it's treasury IT.
tells how he has been able r. sons
ms BOY TO college. and that he homes
1 r. vi. some a be an official. The
iurk thereupon longs for q bat+ao
government. At the sans time 49,
conege students tell what they bane
learned, and as a result the twentiats
century spirit Of modern proprass -
SURFING the Mohammedan world :
Inc Work of the Missions.
In addition to the colIoo;o+a
grest advances in our G viIizatia "orh
being made by the Protesfant aIe