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 YOUNG MOSLEM AND CHRISTIANITY 141

Moslem children who attend Christian schools in India, only a very small number have ever yet taken advantage of this privilege of exemption from the study of the Bible.

And who can ever measure the gratitude of Moslems of the Near East, the education of whose sons in Robert College, Constantinople, in the American University of Beirut, Alborz College of Teheran, and in other institutions founded under Christian auspices has been a potent factor in bringing about the blessings of the new day in those Moslem lands? In these colleges young men and young women have been trained in all the branches of modern learning, including science and medicine, and they have gone out to serve their people with the spirit of him who said, "I came not to be ministered unto, but to minister."

But more interesting even than this, perhaps, is the appreciation of medical missions by the Wahhabi king of Saoudi Arabia, Ibn Saoud. Not only once has he called upon the doctors of the mission of the Reformed Church in America to come from Bahrein to attend him and his family; but he has done it so often that now these Christian doctors may be called his family physicians the royal physicians of the Kingdom of the Hejaz! And if this sense of appreciation is true of His Highness, Ibn Saoud, how much more true is it of the tens of thousands of humble Moslems who owe their lives to the devoted skill and service of the Christian doctors who serve the Moslem world at such strategic points as Old Cairo, Egypt; Kuweit,