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Show Turks Shaken In Their Veneration for Koran Arabic, being a sacred language, the ecclesiastics have cried out r.gainst their holy hook, the Koran, appearing in any other tongue. But the Turkish government has in spite of this allowed the publication of three separate translations. Fourteen Four-teen thousand copies have been sold. Turks, who formerly heard the sounding Arabic of the Koran without with-out understanding anything of its meaning, imagined it charged with tremendous and mystic meanings. That impression melts away when the Koran is read in the vernacular. It Is sometimes enough to place a Koran and a Testament in the hands of a Turkish reader and leave him to draw his own conclusions. It is said that Kemal Pasha in disgust threw the book across the room into a corner. Yet in tiie Sudan the primary pri-mary textbook in all the government schools is the Koran, and Islam is gaining ground constantly in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Sunday School Times. |