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The printed page is a missionary that can go
anywhere and do so at minimum cost. It enters closed lands and reaches all
strata of society. It does not grow weary. It needs no furlough. It lives
longer than any missionary. It never gets ill. It penetrates through the mind
to the heart and conscience. It has and is producing results everywhere. It has
often lain dormant yet retained its life and bloomed years later. - Samuel
Marinus Zwemer
[PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/662205]
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The printed page is a missionary that can go anywhere and do so at minimum cost. It enters closed lands and reaches all strata of society. It does not grow weary. It needs no furlough. It lives longer than any missionary. It never gets ill. It penetrates through the mind to the heart and conscience. It has and is producing results everywhere. It has often lain dormant yet retained its life and bloomed years later. - Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Samuel Marinus Zwemer (April 12, 1867 – April 2, 1952), nicknamed The Apostle
to Islam, was an American missionary,
traveler, and scholar. He was born at Vriesland, Michigan. In 1887 he received an
A.B. from Hope College, Holland,
Mich., and in 1890, he received an M.A. from New Brunswick Theological Seminary,
New Brunswick, N. J.. His other degrees
include a D.D. from Hope College in 1904, a L.L.D. from Muskingum
College in 1918, and a D.D. from Rutgers
College in 1919.
After
being ordained to the Reformed Church ministry by the Pella,
Iowa Classis in 1890, he was a missionary at Busrah, Bahrein, and at
other locations in Arabia
from 1891 to 1905. He was a member of the Arabian Mission (1890–1913). Zwemer
served in Egypt
from 1913 to 1929. He also traveled widely in Asia Minor,
and he was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London.
In
1929 he was appointed professor of missions and professor of the history of
religion at the Princeton Theological Seminary,
where he taught until 1937. He had married Amy Elizabeth Wilkes on May 18,
1896. He was famously turned down by the American Missionary Society, which
resulted in him going overseas alone. He founded and edited the publication The
Moslem World for 35 years. He was influential in mobilizing many Christians
to go into missionary work in Islamic countries.
Zwemer
retired from active work on the faculty of Princeton College Seminary at the
age of seventy, but continued to write and publish books and articles as well
as doing a great deal of public speaking. Zwemer died in New York City at the
age of eighty-four.
According
to Ruth A. Tucker, Ph.D.,
Samuel Zwemer's converts were "probably less than a dozen during his
nearly forty years of service" and his "greatest contribution to
missions was that of stirring Christians to the need for evangelism among
Muslims".
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“A
man set on fire is an apostle of his age. Tell me, is your ministry a burning
and shining light, or a smoking wick, slowly dying out to ashes?” - Samuel
Zwemer
[PHOTO
SOURCE: http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=3147]
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OTHER LINKS:
Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies
Open Arms to the Muslim World - The
Story of Samuel Zwemer
SAMUEL ZWEMER ON PRAYER [QUOTE]
“Mould me and make me after
your will. While I am waiting, yielded and still.”
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