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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1912)
-> - -A£UJ£A3 AT rw HT1JL OS ZS/>J ZjfST, S'SC'CS— V t M world, according to the latest . MttBS'<w. there are about 2tW.wtf.lW0 dohamc edans Ot these, no less than tthMJhM Use wader Hr.Urn rule—a U of i 'w ytw in excess of tbe Chrls f n |nt«lal)oli of King Georges do | . Oamm. Moat jieoj le. la ocnsfdering these vast hordes of MoaSetns never lor a mo s • et i . ina ot them as militant lollow "r at the Prophet. They look upon be l»:am acrid as quiescent so tar as the propagation of its doctrine* is con erwed—as yielding more and more to it* :• of tne am.;. . ot fnrtstian mis »K«anr» spread out over It 1 at. t-cordteg to a tutu.her ot these very mis ,ea. a ho nave gained their knowledge in «be Lett:• .me forced try l Lr.:tianity against l» .** and other region*. thl* fr by no means the '*« PT'C the Irrnt they bnrg me news that Mohu&jLcCaaua. tar from being quiet. .s pulilng »-fh ue« Me mat it* aatie . tilled with Atm- ■ tesJ. are maiirg bi»«s o! converts to their dwirtz. - tot only among pagans, but among people, preci sely converted to .nnstiamty. h'rte* .» where the pitched battle for converts twfaeer. Oil** .aafy and Islam U being waged ***** fur mealy Those who have been over the g- -;.d «1-ciare that the religious fate ot tbe ‘ 1 >n'iner.l bang* to tbe balance Mobam medaciMa ba» made aura progress there ot late, they »**f. tbat :t Is a aacnios «be'ber M will i t sooa become Atnea s dominant tanb Nor tost per*iub of tbe earth tbe only place where Islam ts striding triumphantly tor ■sard Pan-1.- .amis* sedu.uusly festered by Abdel Hi t-.K. deposed Stalt-E of Turkey, bas served to sue ila'e th» aggressiveness ot tbe Projtet followers to India. Malaysia. Central Asia. Siberia. Kussla and other lands. Ttis ri;r«> tcBeta ts noticeable not only a moor t ue M"hatriiie-dao* who seek to rerou te their •--~n religion to modernttv. but a‘»o among tbe W'Bd fanatics at orthodoxy, who stu out gate sp toe jot or tittle of tbe doctrines banded down to them by their tore lather, straight from the days of Mohammed. Tbs one great < harsctertstlc of tbe Moslem world today Is Barest. Uir turn prodigal son ia tbe parable. Islam M cucting to itself and is becoming conscious of Its n. t-d Three great movements m tbe Moslem s-.rld at the preient lime are all of theta loeica'iie at this unrest—the deveiop mewt of the great dervish orders, the growth of the tan l imk *|4rtt and tbe attempt of tbe new Islam le ra oaaitze the old orthodoxy— all ct r d t to the same cause, namely, the »etd;„ ’.meet of It.am to tbe progress of mod ert. f. .ugnt »r.d sestero civilization, either by way of protest sod defiant r. or ot accommoda tion and compromise. The m-demtsi movement touches every Mos lem who ret'.ves education on western lines, whether In Java. India. Persia or Egypt, and compos* him to adopt a new theology and a hew philosophy and new social standards or give up his re ,g.,-r. altogether. How tar tbe advocates of the new It.am go In throwing overboard their cargo to nave the ship is Illus trated to a book. "IN* Truth About Islam.' Jaof i uhlf-bed at Cairo by Ur Muhammad llodr a eradiate at Edinburgh Cnlverslty No orthodoa Moslem would recognize tnts pre set tar Ion of Islam as the same religion wnicn he professes Tht er.ortaoos increase sad activity of Mos lem > .rna.lsa la all tbe chlet centers of the Moslem a odd Is also an indication of intel lect «al and S" tal unrest. Some of tbe leading papers are a.ready the mouthpiece ot intol erance aad ahow a Bulled attitude toward Chnstiasttj The religious movements In Islam today are radically pswgreartve or retrogressive The dervish orders sod the Mshdis m Somaliland. Yemen aad the Sahara, all believe in a Pan Islamism utterly opposed to modern clvlllza ttaa and their cry Is "Mack to Mohammed " The adrurtirt of refcrjs m java and Per t*v the preachers of the near Is'am tn India, and • be aancnatiMs tn K«yp'._ on the contrary, are try tig to set away from Mohammed and the aar.i tandards of Arabian cittazanon. re ject s*uet of the iradi-ioo». and make rational ka the tasks of their faith Acmrd -{ to thee. Mohammed was neither teats, uiitte ay r ’r.taiane Their Ideas and their Ideals are at the opposite pole of or thodoxy However, aa has bees staled, orthodox Islam ■ad up 'o-date Islam seem to be alike in one l*!-i*—they r re both moting forward To tarn first to Africa, the great battle ground. evidorea of this : '-egress appear on rtety fade !a central Airira a dozen sects or dirclshes are at work proselytizing—foremost awns them the powerful Senusl. who yearly •end oat large bands of missionaries in short, aa one < toman worker puts it. ' Kvery Mo tsBSMkss la a mission ary MG/MMME0AA/3 B£m?£ r/?T KAABA/i AT MECCA One striking thing shout this spread ot the doctrines of islam is that European colonial governments tend to help rather than hin der it. The pacification of heathen countries and the suppression ot the slave trade. It seems, have been lav orable to Mohammed anism. One missionary ex plains wl- • Islam is al ready in possession or great sections of north and east Africa, and 13 steadily advancing, in this wise: It has often been said that the transition from paganism to Christianity is very much more abrupt than that to Islam Hut in addition to this, the Mohammedan recog nizes in religion as in other matters, a vari ety of intermediate stages. “He ts satlsfled. es pecially at the begin ning, with e very slight degree of adhesion to S/y TA4T /T0JQ//JT /IT M/rr/) />/■?/,r tx/ixe/? • • m a Islam. It is by no means all converts, but only i indh ideals bere and there who pay any attention to the deeper religious requirements Ao abrupt break in polygamous conditions is demanded, as Is the case in Christian missions; whlie magical practices and other supersti tions are tolerated. The convert thus loses nothing, but on the contrary gains In social position and considera tion. so that his Adhesion is almost a matter of course." How Islam forges ahead In India Is shown by these figures: In 1871 there were. In Bengal. 17,000,000 Hindoos and 16.500.000 Mohammedans. In ISOl there were 18.000.000 Hindoos and more than nearly 19.500,000 Mohammedans Thus, in thirty years, the Mohammedans, who. at the start, numbered half a million less than the Hindoos, had not only made up that deficit, but placed themselves 1.600.000 in the lead Basing his statement on these figures. Lieut Col Mukerjee of the Indian Medical Service, in his book entitled "A Dying Race." maintains that In Bengal the future is with the Moham medans. . In explanation of the success of Moslem methods In India, a Christian missionary who »bows that land says: "The Moslem propagandist is Asiatic: we are not He esn ingratiate himself with the people; he can make hlmseir one of them in every detail of social life; he will give hts daughter in marriage to the convert, and while v.e are learning to speak the language, he grows into their very life. “The Moslem propagandist Is a keen Itinerant; why should not our preachers and catechists move about among the people with less show of Kuropean tent and boat? “Martyn Clark says that as ninety-five per cent, of the people live in villages. It were wis dom to learn from the Moslem monarchs. who propagated Islam tn the villages; their power perished, but their religion remained.'" He sums up admirably the difference be iween the proselytizing method ol Christian and Moslem by saying that the former, in or der to succeed, "must be less of a combatant and more of a wooer.” In the great islands ot Malaysia Islam is likewise meeting with marked success. A Christian missionary tn those remote parts de clares that the population of large portions or Java. Celebes. Sumatra, and other less Im portant islands Is already quite Isiamlzed. In Borneo, he adds. Moslem influence Is in creasing steadily in the same proportion as Paganism is declining. Only at such places where there are Christian missions is this prog ress checked successfully. But, In the greater part of the Island, the Mohammedan propa ganda goes on without resistance. “The Moslems of Malaysia.” be says, "who leave their native country In order to establlsn themselves on the shores of other countries, whether temporarily or permanently, are gen erally anxious to make proselytes. It is not especially religious conviction that drives them, but rather commercial Interest. Tbose who emigrate are always people who gain their living by trading "Now pagan tribes In Malaysia live in com munism The family extends Itself to a elan, clans grow to tribes; and family relation is the only tie that holds together these commu nities. Only among one’s family does one reel safe. "It ts a matter of course that the Moham medan foreigner, as soon as he is established on the shore of the heathen land, tries to en ter into family relations with the native tribe In the neighborhood or which he lives and trades In this be succeeds by marrying a woman belonging to that tribe. He and other fellow Mohammedans create Moslem family circles: lor the wives have to adopt the re ligion of their husbands, be It only superficial ly No one will expect the wife to rultill the duties of her new religion, but her children are eure to become better Mohammedans than their mother. 'In this way a group of Mohammedaa tarn AT THFJiOlY FLACf AIL GOOF STOh'AAfWFA/fS , VA5/T O/YCF AY F/fF/rt UFFT/STF-* ilies is formed which by and by grows into a Moslem com munity, and at last becomes a society with Its own chiet. •‘Thus some centuries aga Islam established itself in Sumatra, afterwards In Java and the other Islands of Ma laysia and In this way we see it at present establishing It self in Central Celebes. "Sometimes a good num ber of Mohammedan families settle at the coast, choose a chief, and so from the begin ning immediately form a po litical unity. But whatever its origin may be. a Moslem establishment always exer cises influence on the heath en tribes of the interior. Va Irious' reasons bring about this supremacy. "The Mohammedan popu lation does not chicly live on agriculture. Th^ earn their living by trade and. just as in hurope. It is considered more distin guished not to bo an agriculturist. The Mo hammedan coast population do grow some vegetables and fruit, but as for the principal food, wliicb is rice, they depend on tbe people ot the interior. On their excursions they have always money with them and they never for get to make a show of it. "The Mohammedans also dress in a better way than the' heathen, and they very cunningly array themselves in clothes which excite the covetousness and desire of their heathen neighbors, who are very fond of buying new articles. They like to perfume themselves and constantly speak with contempt about eating pork and of other customs of the people of the interior. In short, they knew how to behave as people of higher rank and quality than the simple pagans. "Through aT! these means the Mohammedan traders arouse the people of the Interior to lm itate their customs, and all these things are profitable to a propagation of Islam.” From Asiatic Russia come similar surpris ing tidings of Moslem encroachments tn the field of pagan conversion. A Christian work er in that territory tells how, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the "Apostle of the Altai,” reverend Father Macary, crossed the plains south of Tobolsk in Siberia to react the Altai, and perceived the state ot the mil lions ot heathen Kirghts living there. He asked the Russian government to allow Him to begin missionary work among the Kirghls, but he was told that these people wer| too savage as yet to become converts to Christianity. Not long after that Mohammedan mission aries entered the field, worked with great zeai and perseverance, and won over all the Klrghis tribes to tbe talth or Islam. As a result of this setback, the writer states, "the Christian missionary has now to tight, not the weak and beggarly elements of an animls tic religion, but the seemingly inaccessible granite fortress of Islam." Regarding the genera! situation In Siberia the same missionary says: Moslem propaganda Is gaining in strengtt and Mohammedan influence Is growing, while Christian influence, as represented by tbe Kus sian church. Is weaker. The unlucky war wtto Japan and the proclamation or liberty ot con science have done their work. Forty thou sand baptized Christians, formerly Mohamme dans and heathens, have returned to pagan ism and Islam Islam especially comes out 01 this crisis strengthened and more aggressive than ever before." In China there are millions or Moham medans. but. according to Christian testimony they are not markedly aggressive in propagat ing the doctrines of the prophet The same seems true of Turkey and Persia, In conclusion, attention should be called tc a ptaa-e of the Mohammedan situation, which is especially startling from the fact that it !« near 10 home, viz.: the activity or Moslem proschtizers in this western hemisphere In several of the West Indian Islands ane the Guiana territory ot South America there are thousands of East Indian Mohammedans In British Guiana there are 22.0(H): in Dutch Guiana. 5.800; m Central America and the West Indies. 20.000, “®8ch 8 8818,1 fr8ctlon or the population might well be omitted in our survey." state the editors of "Islam and Missions." "were it not that undoubted testimony comes in regard to the activity of Islam, especlaiy In British Guiana and the West Indies. "If the results of a century's missionary er fort In British Guiana are to be preserved tbe ChUPCh mUSt 8,8,16 8 mor6 deter l° COClbat ,b6 ,nfluenee of the Eau Indian. The struggle of the future m British Guiana will be between Christ and Mo nammed.* •Thinks Leniency in Order Secretary e* War St<meon Would Sep arate VovtMul Oeeertera From Hardened Criminal*. A striking 1 nature of Secretary RtauMi annual report la bit retom — at aeeepiag change* in tbe of peatabtag military offend era Tbe secretary doe* not believe tbat yoetbs *bo are guilty of purely m the Mine plane and treated in the Mine manner as hardened criminals who are at present ' confined with them. Under existing conditions a young, man. or a mere boy who has scarcely reached an age of complete respon sibility. is liable to a term of impris onment for no othir offence than thoughtless desertion. Secretary Stlm son does not advocate the abolition of prison sentences for this offence, nor can any one doubt that the discipline of the army must be maintained by punishment of sufficient severity to Impress upon enlisted men the neces sity of yielding to military authority and of observing the terms of their contract with the United States. But at present, according to Mr. Stlmson. "everything is due to accentuate their status as a convict The man enters usually as an offender from imma turity or thoughtlessness. He romes out without hope of or opportunity for redeeming himself either id or out ot the military service, and wltn a distinct grievance against society." Prison reform and a scientific de velopment of penology are important movements ot the present century. W hile the states of the American Union are making remarkable prog ress along these lines, the federal gov ernment should not lag'behind the advance.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 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This was a couple of years ago, and the young lady is now married to one of the promising young farmers of the dis trict. fh writing of her trip to the Mil waukee representatives of the Cana dian Government she says: "I enjoyed my trip up here very much, and ex pect to go out to our homestead in the Pembina district rext spring." To the housewife the information that she has "put up twelve quarts of rasp berries" is important, as they “picked them themselves,” and they might have picked ten times the quantity if they had required them, for there is no country where wild fruit grows in men abundance. The letter goes on to say, and this is interesting from a woman’s standpoint, "the country is very beautiful.” Speaking of the friends with whom she went up to live, she says: ‘‘They certainly have a beautiful farm and house”—they Lad been there about four years, also going from Wisconsin—“they have about twenty acres of oats and bar ley, five acres alfalfa, three acres po tatoes and I don’t know how many of vegetables. I think they have about forty acres under cultivation altogeth er. They are now draining a slough vrhich they will afterwards plow and put into fall wheat. They also have a large herd of cattle, and Mrs. C. has about 100 chickens. They make on an average of 30 pounds of butter every week. 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