A Fellowship of Faith for Moslems

Category:Islam
There is a force in the world today which brings us 
into touch with one Jehovah God and which makes all 
things possible to us. This force is faith. We are apt 
to regard faith as an intangible thing, but if we did but 
realize it, it is scarcely less tangible than electricity. 
As we understand the laws that govern the electric 
current, as we learn the lines upon which it will work, 
so do we have before our eyes certain proofs of its power 
and we are able to harness it to fulfill our behests. Faith 
too has its laws, faith too is an active, working force 
and it is possible to apply it to the crying needs of our 
own day and generation and to have occular demonstration of what it can do. 
The Bible magnifies the value of the individual in 
God's sight and shows that the faith of one man can accomplish miracles, but it also shows that it is in a fel- 
lowship of faith that faith can be most productive, and 
it is to a fellowship of faith that many of the most exalted promises are made. "If ye (plural) have faith as 
a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain. 
Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and 
nothing shall be impossible unto you (Matt. 17:29)." 
This is a promise to faith, united, active and aggressive. 
It is in a living fellowship that mountain-removing- 
faith is to be found. 
Again hear what the Master says: "Verily, I say unto 
you. Whatsoever ye (plural) shall bind on earth shall 
be bound in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on 
earth shall be loosed in heaven." Again I say unto 
you, "That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for 
them of my Father which is in heaven" (Matt. i8: 
i8, 19). Unless prayer is the voice of faith it is but 
a meaningless repetition of words or a form of moral, 
spiritual or intellectual gymnastics, but prayer that arises from a living fellowship of faith, yea, when that fellowship consists of only two members, is, our Lord teaches 
us, a power in heaven and on earth. God the Father 
graciously undertakes to do for such a fellowship anything that they shall ask. 
The Bible teems with illustrations of the actual working value of faith and fellowship combined. Was it 
not a fellowship of faith that overthrew Jericho! What 
was Gideon's little band of three hundred but a fellowship of faith? What was Jehoshaphat's army as it went 
out against Ammon, Moab and Seir but a fellowship of 
faith, with the words "Believe in the Lord your God" 
ringing in their ears and the song of praise upon their 
lips? Pass to the New Testament and' see that little 
group of intercessors pleading with God for the Apostle 
Peter. Prison, chains, four quaternions of soldiers, the 
wrath of Herod, certain death confronting him, "5m/ 
Prayer (Acts 12:5)! A fellowship of faith, humble 
believers whose faith was indeed but as a grain of mustard seed, pleading with God in the background and 
where now are the soldiers, the chains, the keepers, the 
prison doors? Heavenly forces have been put in motion, 
God has moved, and the miracle is accomplished fact. 
It has been the writer's glad privilege to witness spiritual movement in more than one place in answer to the 
united persistent pleading with God of a company of 
His believing people. Nothing seems impossible to such 
a fellowship, they know that faith does but pave the way 
for the Almighty God to work, they rely upon His promises, they plead them before His throne, and they are 
confident that the answer to their petitions, though it 
tarry, will surely come. They abound in hope by the 
power of the Holy Ghost and there is no situation too 
dark and difficult for them to face because there is nothing too hard for their God. 
That is the ideal we have set before us as we bind 
ourselves into a fellowship of faith for the Moslems. 
For its exercise faith must have an objective. It must 
be applied to specific casesâ€” it must be focused or its full 
value will never be appreciated, and as we stand face to face with the great Moslem world we have an objective worthy of our metal. Islam defies our King, denies His divinity, scoffs at His Cross and declares He did 
not die. It is a great system in more ways than one 
but it is a system of darkness and of error. Faith enables 
us to realize that there are forces behind all this in the 
invisible realm, "world-rulers of this darkness," that it 
is possible by united prayer to deal with these "world-rulers." If on earth by prayer we bind these invisible 
powers, in heaven God will bind them and we shall see 
the darkness lifting and the light of the glory of God 
in the face of the Crucified One dawning in many Moslem hearts. 
Members of a fellowship of faith for the Moslems 
must believe implicitly in the ultimate, absolute triumph 
of the Cross over the Crescent. Christ is their Head â€” 
all power is His in heaven and on earth, and "He must 
reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet." Islam is Christ's enemy â€” Islam is destined to lick the dust 
before Him. When or how that final triumph will come 
who shall say, but as we go forth against this false system we have the assurance that we are on the winning side 
and so we can praise for victory "Before the vaunting 
foe is dead." 
Each living member of a fellowship of faith for the 
Moslems may also rest assured of the fact that every effort to enlighten the darkness of Islam, every prayer offered, every sacrifice made is telling towards that glorious consummation. Hidden he may be, feeble he may 
seem, but his labor is not in vain in the Lord. So divers 
going down to lay mines beneath a dangerous rock toil 
day after day in loneliness and discomfort and see no 
result for their labours. The great rock seems as steadfast as ever, as menacing to life and property, but the day 
comes when the last diver has done his work, the last 
connecting link is made and by the slightest touch an infant can blow the mighty structure to pieces. So let us 
not despise the day of small things when no results are 
visible. The tiny prayer-meeting, two or three gathered 
to pray for the Moslems, the young missionary struggling to express in imperfect Arabic something of a heavenly 
Father's love to a group of indifferent or opposing people, all such efforts are in the plan, all are vital and 
important. May we realize it until the full glory of it 
dawns upon our souls. The very angels in heaven might 
well covet our seemingly humble opportunities of service. As we pray, as we give, as we go, may we be conscious that this is our Divinely appointed task and that we may claim and receive Divine equipment for it, and 
that it is leading up to the final overthrow of this false 
religion, and that in it all we are "labourers together with 
God." 
May our fellowship be pulsating with life and hope- 
fulness, may our faith "grow exceedingly," and in our 
great task may we stand shoulder to shoulder, believing 
to see the glory of the Lord in all Moslem lands. 
:London. 
::JENNIE B. LOGAN.