MR. Baedeker says, in his book, “I once met a Tartar, a Mohammedan, who addressed the usual question to me,”
“What do you think of the prophet Mohammed?”
I said, “I have a much more important question for you than that.”
“What is it, then?” he exclaimed.
“It is, what do you think about sin?”
“Oh, we are all sinners,” he replied.
“Then you are a sinner, too,” I said.
“Yes, certainly.”
“Can one sinner save another sinner?”
“No.”
“Well if he is a prophet?”
“No.”
“Well, then, what are we to do—all sinners?”
He had no answer to that question; and I told him of One who knew no sin. Who was made sin for us. The Tartar bowed down his head, and his eyes filled with tears. He had never before heard the sound of the Gospel. He was only one of the millions of these men, fine men, beautiful in stature, walking like giants or kings, but enslaved by sin, and no one to tell them of Him whose blood can set them free.
There is no power on earth that can save sinners from the Satanic power that holds them in its deadly grasp, except the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, the One who died and rose again. I long to go back and tell the people in these dark, dark regions. of this wonderful love—the love of God in Christ Jesus. That is the story worth telling. And they listen to it. The men have embraced rile and kissed me, so glad were they of the message I was able to give them. If you have a real sinner before you, much eloquence is not needed, nor a very long sermon.
ML 02/14/1909