EGYPT: Missionary

Samuel Marinus Zwemer is a big-boned, crude-featured, Dutch-descended son of Michigan. He has been called the most daring, resourceful and successful Christian Missionary to the Moslem world. When the issue is Cross against Crescent he is proud to stick at nothing. Therefore it was but characteristic that Dr. Zwemer should have been caught red handed at Cairo, last week, in the act of proselytizing students at the Mohammedan University of El-Azhar.

Under pretext of conducting a group of U. S. clergymen through the University, last week, strapping Missionary Zwemer began to distribute Presbyterian tracts. Soon some hundreds of the students...

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