# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1930_S120
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

Moon type and would be grateful to you for the
Herald.” We have placed her name on our
mailing-list.

Another recent letter from a home teacher for
adult blind, employed by the State Commission
for the Blind of Ohio,
reads thus: “I wish to thank
you for the high-grade
literature which my pupils
are receiving from you and
your people. I assure you
that the Herald in Moon
type is being read diligently,
and that it is highly ap-
preciated.”

By the grace of God the
Herald in Moon type is at
present read by about two
thousand persons who are
either deaf, deaf-blind, deaf-
mute, blind, speach-readers,
or hard of hearing. To carry
on this work, we employ

four languages and two
systems of embossed type
for the blind. Our two

thousand deaf, deaf-blind,
and blind friends live in
various States of this coun-
try and in about twenty
other distant lands of all
continents.

May our Lutheran Chris-
tians remember also this
work of our Church with
their prayers and their
means to the glory of the
adorable Savior and the
everlasting welfare of im-
mortal souls! 0.C.S.

Islam in Africa.

The Mohammedan population of Africa is esti-
mated at forty-nine millions, about one-third of the
population of the Dark Continent. The Christian
population of Africa is put down at less than eleyen
millions. The Mohammedans are found chiefly in
the north of Africa, where for centuries they have
held a dominating position. Christian missions
among the followers of the Prophet have inyariably

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shown little result. In fact, in carrying on mission-
work among heathen people, missionaries find in
Islam a rival the strength of which cannot be ig-
nored. ‘The spread of Islam in new areas has been

very much more rapid than that of Christianity.

A Mohammedan Said of North Africa.

This is in part accounted for by the fact that it is
a cosmopolitan cult. It is a world brotherhood.
Everywhere, it matters not what the language, it
uses the same characters. Also, it knows no barriers
of race or color, whereas Christianity recognizes the
superiority of Japheth over Ham. “Islam,” says a
writer on this subject, “offers the African member-
ship in an exclusive cosmopolitan brotherhood with
its passwords. It is thus easy for the Moslem to
approach the African. If he is an Indian trader,