The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-09-17
AMERICAN MEN OFF
To WAR ON ISLAM
Radical Innovation in Mission
ary Propaganda Revealed
CAIRO CENTER OF CRUSADE
Christian Press to Be Opened at
Headquarters of the Moslem
World in Egypt.
CAIRO CENTER OF CRUSADE
(By the Religious Eambler.)

(By the Religious Rambler.)
The sailing last week from New
York Of Rev. Samuel NJ. Zwemer, d.
D., bound for Cairo, Egypt, was an
event Of such Importance IN the rell-
gious annals Of the day that had the
fact and its significance been known
there would have been a still greater
demonstration at the lock for Dl.
ZWemer goes TO Egypt to ~lnaugurate
a new policy on behalf of the Protest
ant churches OF the world in the coh-
flIct with Islam. His location at Cairo
as major general in this new wal to
combat the immense activities OF the
MoSlemS is the outcome OF two years
of discussion and conference by lead
ers Of professionalism. DR.. ZWemer
will have charge of a new Christian
printing institution to be known as the
Nile Mission Press, which will engage
in a really worldwide propaganda
against Islam. He will also teach in
a new school that is to be opened for
the training of missionaries to work
among MOSlemS. An effort will also
be made by DR.. Zwemer to strike right
at the heart Of the MoSlem stronghold
by ~endeavoring to reach the students
at FL Ashar, the Oldest and greatest
Moslem university in the world, which
is situated at Cairo. Furthermore, he
will give four months Of every year to
field work, travelling over Asia, Africa
and eastern Europe, studying the
MOSlem problem at first hand and
confering with missionaries in the
MosleIn world. In addition he will
increase his output Of literature upon
the general subject of lslem.
y Holland American Fighter.
Although a young mamie is but
forty-fOur years old-Dr. ZWemer has
won the unique position of the fore
most authority upon the religion of
the prophet MOhammed in the Eng
disappearing world. He has been
been twenty years a resident of Ara
bia and an extensive traveller. A rec
ord OF his j~Orneyings in the Arabian
peninsula, across Oman, through the
Yamen, into Hasa, through Mesapo-
tamia, means little to the average
reader, but read with a map it shows
that he has penetrated into the most
inaccessible and dangerous strong
holds OF the fanatical Arabian Mos
lens. He has written a great book
on Arabia. the Cradle of Islam," and
half a dozen books dealing with phas-
es of the Moham1nedan question. He
has been the foremost figure in sew
eral conferences of worldwide reli-
gious organizations dealing with his
subject, including one in Cairo. one in
Edinburgh, and another in Lucknow.
He has we'll earned his fellowship in
the Royal Geographical Society. He is
also a member Of the Victoria In
stitute Of London.
He was born among the Hollanders
in NrieSland. Mich. and is a graduate
of the Dutch Reformed College al
Holland, Mich, and of the seminary
at New Brunswick. He has done his
work up to the present time unde,
the Dutch Reformed Board of Mis-
SiOns. After living in Bagdad anC
Bosra, on the Tigris. he made his
home on an island in the Persian
Gulf. Bahrein.
All Of the leading American colleges
and universities know the name ant
figure Of Samuel NJ. Zwemer, for a!
a flaming torch Of missionary propa
ganda he has gon up and dow anon,
the students of the country while
serving temporarily as a secretary o
the Student Volunteer Movement, ant
he has enlisted many graduates il
this work. 1t was owing to him tina
the University Of Michigan establish
ed and maintained its Arabian Mis-
sion. Dr.. Zwemer also has been hear,
upon the platforms of the most i'm
portant missionary conventions il
America Of recent years
A Significant Shift.
A paragraph has crept into tn
church press announcing that d.
ZWemef mas Deeu lOdleQ Dy IN
Dutch Reformed Mission to the Unite
Presbyterian Mission, which has il
headquarters in Philadelphia, an
does it's principal work in Egypt.
is understood that he retains a nom
ma connection with his old oar
The change was a fraternal one mad
in the interests Of the work. 1t reai
means a complete readjustment OF tt
work among Mosiems and the putin
OF it on a more adequate basis. abaI
doning in part the old method
merely sending q missionary to a con
munity and thus gradually to pc
meate the faith with Christian ideal
DR.. Zwemer's move means that tt
fpht acairSt Islam has heeD nut INC