the midday sun
Such men have little chance in a brisk , busy , and jaunty world ; but they prefer it should be that way with them . And of these few believers in the goodness of God and man are our fools and gentlemen composed . On that dreadful day , the Kurd who had mangled him so frightfully that he recovered only to limp through life on crutches bent over him and shouted in his face : `` Now , you Christian dog , before I cut your throat show me how this Christ of yours can be a god ! '' `` Is it necessary , '' replied the missionary faintly , `` to light a candle in order to show a man the midday sun ? '' Which was possibly what saved his life , and the lives of his wife and child . Your Moslem adores and understands such figurative answers . So he left the Reverend Mr. Carew lying half dead in the blackened doorway and started cheerfully after a frightened convert praying under the compound wall .