Garfield County News | 1931-08-21 | Page 7 | Turks Shaken in Their Veneration for Koran

turks shaken in their veneration for koran arable arabic being a sacred language tile ecclesiastics have cried out against their holy book the noran koran appearing in any other tongue but the ho turkish government has lit in spite of this allowed the publication of three sept separate irate translations fourteen thou thousand copies haye have been sold turks who formerly heard tho the sounding arable arabic of tho the koran without understanding anything of its meaning imagined it charged with tremendous and mystic meanings meaning that impression melts away when the koran Is read in the vernacular it Is sometimes enough to place a noran koran and it a testament in ahe hands of a turkish reader and leave him hill 1 to draw his own conclusions it la 11 said that kernal pasha in disgust gilst threw the beok neross across tile lie room into a corner yet in the sudan tho the primary textbook in all the government schools Is the koran and lint pritim Is gaining ground constantly in tile tho anglo egyptian sudan Sti sunday school times