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Show Sheiks Study the Bible How Moslems listen to the Bible and sheiks study the Old Testament, is told by a Presbyterian missionary, Mrs. H. R. Boyes of Tripoli, Syria, in a repori! to the Presbyterian board of foreign missions: "One sheik was in the hospital as a patient last year and before he left he asked for a Bible. We hear that he has committed much of the New Testament Tes-tament to memory, and Is teaching it also to his children. Each evening he gathers his friends around him while he reads to them. Our colporteur in this section of the field is selling a great many Scriptures, or portion thereof. "Two sheiks became so interested that they went to Palestine to study Hebrew, so that they could study the Old Testament in the original. They formed a circle of friends who studied evenings, but were compelled to move from their homes by the Moslem In charge of that particular district." |