"The Other Sheep"
September 1934

We were told to write about something that we found similar in the book we read called, "Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel," and "The Other Sheep." Although, "The Other Sheep" is different from the book, it had somesimilarity's. On page 11 of "The Other Sheep" there is a little article tucked in the lower left hand corner titled, "The Difference." The story is about a Pastor (Christian) and a Mohammedan (Muslim) and the Mohammedan says to the preacher, " You must admit that we have one thing that you have not and it is better that anything you have."The Pastor is curious and lets him speak again, "When we go to Mecca we find at least a coffin. When you Christians go to Jerusalem, which is your Mecca, you find nothing but an empty grave." The Pastor replied, "That is just the difference. Mohammed is dead. Mohammed is in his coffin." I thought the Pastor was clever in his response. There is a mission group in the book called, S.I.M., (Sudan Interior Mission, later known as SIM International). Muslims lived among the Christians in Africa, and it was SIM's job to convert them, or to at least let them know about Jesus. One could imagine that the same conversation went on with people from SIM and its Muslim neighbors. The Pastor goes on to say that, "the founders of all other religions are in the grave but Jesus Christ is not among the dead." I don't know how a Muslim could counter that argument.
           I noticed on page 5 that there was a small article about translating Bibles, for Native Indian Christians and translating it into languages of India. Similar to what SIM went through in translating the Bible from English to Hausa, an African language in that area.