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VOL. XXXV

FEBRUARY, 1921

No. 2

A MONTHLY MISSIONARY JOURNAL
Published by The Board of Foreign
Missions of the Synod of the Re-
formed Presbyterian Church of North
America in the interest of Mission Work

The present is the season of the
year when the largest contribution for
Foreign Missions are usually received.
This year we will need all that friends
of the work can possibly supply. No
“drive” can be made, and we musttake
and use only what is sent, but we want
all to know that funds are low and
opportunities great, and we welcome
your gifts this year as always.

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A Monthly Missionary Journal.

PUBLISHED BY THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE
SYNOD OF THE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF
NORTH AMERICA IN THE INTEREST OF ALL MISSION WORK,
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EDITOR,

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Entered as second-class matter January 6, 1916, at the post office at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

OFFICERS OF THE WOMEN’S SYNODICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY

President, Mrs. Myrta May Dodds, 2018 South
Columbine St., University Park, Denver, Colo.
Recording Secretary, Mrs. T. H. Atchison, 117 W.

McIntyre. N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. W. M. Hutchison,
Sterling, Kan.

Treasurer, Mrs. W. O. Ferguson, Denison, Kan.
Vice Presidents, Mrs. J. M. Coleman. Bloomington,
Ind.; Mrs. H. G. Patterson, Washington, Iowa;
Mrs. Boyd Tweed, Beaver Falls, Pa.; Mrs. S. B.
McClelland, Greeley, Colo.; Mrs. J. M. Wylie,
Kansas City, Mo. __—

Foreign Missions, Mrs. F. M. Wilson, 2410 N.

Marshall St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Home Missions. Miss Lillie McKnight, Park
Place, Beaver Falls, Pa.

Literature, Miss J. S. Martin, Beaver Falls, Pa.
Temperance — Mrs. Henry Russell, Bloomington,
Thank Offering, Mrs. J. K. M. Tibby, Pitts-
burgh, Pa. i |

Superintendents ;

Young Women’s Work, Mrs. E. M. Harsh, Belle
Center, Ohio.

Juniors, Mrs. T. O. Weir, Winchester, Kan.
Standard of Efficiency, Mrs. James Carson, 939
Corona, Denver, Colo.

Plan of Work Board, Chairman, Mrs. R. C. Wy-
lie. 119 W. McIntyre, N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa.

OFFICERS OF PRESBYTERIAL MISSIONARY SOCIETIES

PITTSBURGH

President, Mrs. James S. McGaw, 1615 Orchlee
St., N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa.

First Vice President, Mrs. H. A. Calderwood, 5510
Kentucky Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Second Vice President, Mrs. R. W. Redpath, 3220
Fifth Ave., Beaver Falls, Pa.

Recording Secretary, Mrs. W. S. Robb, 232 Osgood
St., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. William Esler, 325
Franklin Ave., Wilkinsburg, Pa.

Treasurer, Mrs. W. J. Ward. 818 Wallace Ave.,
Wilkinsburg, Pa.

ILLINOIS

President, Mrs. R. H. Hayes, Sparta, 111.

Vice President, Mrs. S. S. Smith, Bloomington, Ind.

Recording Secretary, Mrs. Owen F. Thompson,
Houston, 111.

Corresponding Secretary, Miss Nannie Piper, Oak-
dale, 111.

Treasurer, Mrs. Mary Stormont, Princeton, Ind.

COLORADO

President, Mrs. Ada Thompson, La Junta, Colo.

Vice President, Mrs. James Carson, Denver, Colo.

Recording Secretary, Mrs. S. B. McClelland, Gree-
ley, Colo.

Treasurer, Mrs. W. J. McMillan, Greeley, Colo.

KANSAS

President, Mrs. D. II. Elliott, 1101 W. Tenth St.,
Topeka, Kan.

Vice President, Mrs. J. G. Reed, Stafford, Kan.

Second Vice President, Mrs. G. M. Young, Ask-
ridge, Kan.

Recording Secretary, Mrs. E. G. Russell, Superior,
Neb.

Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. R. W. Speer, Rose-
dale, R. F. D. 5, Kansas City, Kan.

Treasurer, Mrs. E. H. White, Shambaugh, Iowa.

Junior Work, Mrs. T. C. Weir, Winchester, Kan.

IOWA

President, Mrs. George Coleman. Hopkinton, Iowa.

Vice President, Mrs. Bertha Godfrey, Washington,
Iowa.

Recording Secretary, Mrs. Howard Hensleigh,
Morning Sun, Iowa.

Treasurer, Mrs. John Cannon, CrawfordsvUle,
Iowa.

Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Jennie McClure,
Sharon, Iowa.

Superintendent Junior Work, Miss Anna McClur-
kin, Sharon, Iowa.

Young Women, Miss Margaret Greer, Hopkinton,
Iowa.

PHILADELPHIA

President, Mrs. M. M. Pearce, 215 Buckingham
Place, Philadelphia, Pa.

Vice President, Mrs. S. A. S. Metheny, 617 N. 4Srd
St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Recording Secretary, Miss Ruth McKnight, Phila-
delphia.

Junior Work. Mrs. S. E. Greer, 45 South Logan,
Denver, Colo.

Treasurer, Miss Anna Forsythe, 800 South 5th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

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A Monthly Journal devoted to Missionary Work in the Reformed Presby-
terian Church, U. S. A.

VOL. XXXV FEBRUARY, 1921 N«. 2

A CALL FOR MISSIONARIES.

The Board of Foreign Missions
renews its call for two young men,
college graduates, to go to Cyprus next
summer. They are needed to teach in
the Academy. For more than a year
we have been appealing for these
workers. Mr. Ernest V. Tweed will
soon finish the second year of his
three-year term, and it was agreed
with the Rev. Alvin W. Smith, when
he went to Cyprus, that he would have
the privilege of returning for more
schooling at the close of his third
year. Thus the only men we have in
Cyprus are about to finish their second
year, and after another year we shall
be without successors to them unless
we can get the two young men we are
now asking for. By all means the
new workers should be there one year
before these men leave for America.
Young men, seeing in this situation
the call of Christ, should begin corre-
spondence with Board at once.

Similarly the need for two nurses,
one for Latakia immediately, and one
for Mersina to go out when Dr. John
Peoples shall return, is imperative.
This call was authorized by Synod
several years ago, and, except for the
War, these nurses would have been
sent long ere this. May we hear from
consecrated young women, qualified
for this work and desirous of entering
this department of Christ’s service.

Findley M. Wilson,

Secretary.

2410 North Marshall street, Phila-
delphia, Penna.

A COLD DOUCHE FOR SPIRITISTS.

Hackney College — which, by the
way, is deploring the continued ab-
sence of its Principal, Dr. Forsyth,
through illness — opened its winter ses-

sion, as usual, with the Drew Lecture
on Immortality. The lecturer was
that remarkable young psycho-thera-
pist, Dr. J. A. Hadfield, of Oxford. Dr.
Hadfield, in the course of a telling
argument, flatly denied that the spir-
itualistic hypothesis rested on any
solid foundation whatsoever. By the
law of parsimony in science we were
bound to accept the simplest rather
than the most elaborate explanation
that fits a given fact, and the simplest
hypothesis that fits the fact of spirit-
ualistic communications is not the
presence of the departed, but sugges-
tion pure and simple. He himself had
induced three of his patients to believe
under suggestion (not hypnotism)
that they had experienced levitations
even more remarkable than those of
the famous medium D. D. Home, and
that they had seen a certain chaplain
who was present at the time raised
from the earth in a similar way. He
claimed, in fact, to have produced by
means of suggestion all the most strik-
ing phenomena of spiritualism; pa-
tients of his had believed themselves
to be communicating with the spirits
of the dead in precisely the same way
as they would in a spiritualistic
seance. Either suggestion or telepa-
thy were sufficient to explain any of
these phenomena. He warned his,
hearers, however, that much that
passes under the name of telepathy is
simply hyper-sensitiveness of hearing.
Dr. Hadfield is a firm believer in im-
mortality and arrives at his conviction
largely by way of psychology. “We
are rising,” he avers, “out of the ob-
sessions of science, and realizing that
there are impulses in the soul under
its present conditions that nothing but
Lp*-eafter can satisfy.” There
is little doubt that the Christian neu-
rologist is the most formidable oppo-

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nent spiritualism has so far had to
contend with — far more formidable
than the meterialistic scientist. — The

Homilectic Review.

A LARGE FACTOR IN SUCCESS.

We, as missionaries, need to have
behind us a constituency who will sup-
port us abroad. I do not mean friends
who will support us financially, though
that is useful enough, no doubt. But
there is something much more impor-
tant. I thank God that without real-
izing the full importance of it, I was
led to do something in this way before
I went out to Arabia. We are prone
to look on ourselves as doing the work
of the Church in the foreign field but
that is not the way that God looks
at it. If we stand alone out there, we
will accomplish little, but if we are
one of twenty, one out there, and the
other nineteen working with us, at
home, God will accomplish a great
deal through us.

In Arabia, after a long effort, we
succeeded in getting permission to
begin work in Kateef, a town on the
mainland. This was an advance step
of great importance. I took my in-
struments and medicines and assist-
ants, expecting to be able to do any-
thing I could do anywhere. We were
received enthusiastically and the first
day we had over two hundred pa-
tients. We tended all of them we
could, and the others came back the
next day, with two hundred new ones.
Things went on in this way for four
or five days. We were so popular that
it was uncomfortable. We had visions
of a permanent establishment in
Kateef, and in two of the neighboring
towns as well, thus making a circuit
covering the whole district.

Then a change came. I was invited
to come and interview the chief.

“What is this that I understand you
do in the mornings before you treat
the sick people?”

“Before we treat the sick people,”
I replied, “why, before we treat the
sick people, we have prayers.”

“Do you have them in Arabic?”

“Yes.”

“You can’t do that in this town,”
replied the chief.

“Well,” I said, “we always have
prayers before we begin work. We
consider that we heal no one. It is
God who heals, and we always have
prayer before the work begins. No
one is compelled to come. The doctor
does not know or want to know who
comes. Those that come and those
that stay away are treated alike. But
we could not begin the work without
prayer.”

“No,” said the chief, with a snap in
his voice, “You can’t have them in this
town.”

“In that case,” I said, “we will have
to give the work up, for we do not
desire to carry it on without prayer.”

“Very well,” was the reply, “give it
up then. You can leave here to-
morrow.”

The situation looked hopeless.
Kateef was apparently slipping out of
our hands, and there was not a thing
we could do to hold it. I thought of
Luther’s prayer. “Lord, Thou art
imperiled with us.” That afternoon,
a little after I returned from the re-
ception room of the chief, a man came
for treatment. I told him that I was
unable to do anything for him because
the work had been officially closed
down, but if he would get the chief’s
permission, I would be glad to do what
was necessary for him. He left to
seek the chief and was followed by
another, and he by twenty or more
who went off for special permission
that afternoon. The boat was to leave
the next day, and we packed up to go
in it. But in the morning, Mahmoud,
the Grand Vizier of the chief, came
to see me.

“You did not understand,” he began,
“The chief wants you to remain, but
to work without the prayers.”

“Yes,” I said, “we understood well
enough, but we do not feel that we
can do that.”

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think you could pray in your upstairs
room and not come down till you were
done? Would not that do as well?”

“No,” I said, “I do not think it
would be the same.”

“Well, anyhow,” said he, “surely
God knows you want to pray, and He
will take into account the fact that the
chief has forbidden it, so it will be all
right.”

“No,” I said, “we do not feel that
it would be the same.”

“Oh, well,” said Mahmoud, “don’t
you understand, go ahead and have
your prayers, and say nothing more
about it.”

So we stayed in Kateef, and had
prayer before the clinics, and a day or
two later, when I visited the chief, he
gave me five cups of coffee in succes-
sion, to show the great esteem in
which he held me, and everything
went beautifully from that time on.
If we had been driven out of that
town, I suppose it would have been
years before we could have returned.
That battle was not won by the mis-
sionary in Kateef. It was the nine-
teen working at home that helped to
change defeat into victory. Other
missionaries have experiences like
that, and often much more critical. —
Paul Harrison, M. D., in The Mission-
ary Review of the World.

AN INSPIRED MEMORY.

The facts of this story came to the
writer from an Australian minister.

Some years ago there rode into a
wild little township of Western Aus-
tralia— in the region known as the
“out-back” — a young minister. It was
his first pastorate and the first at-
tempt to represent the Christian
Church in that neglected and sparsely
populated district. The drinking
saloon and gambling hall had been in
long possession — the Church had ar-
rived all too late upon the scene. By
his plucky attacks however upon the
population of the settlement the young
sky pilot soon gathered together a
band of the better sort of men. They

began to build a wooden church.
Materials were not plentiful and a lot
of the interior was composed of pack-
ing-case wood. When finished it was
decidedly interesting to notice here
and there upon the flooring such
legends as “Hudson’s soap,” “Sun-
light,” etc. By accident or design the
floor of the pulpit bore the words
“Beware! Dynamite!”

Thus a healthy Christian work was
begun. The cause, however, had one
especial foe. He was a man of no-
torious reputation, a hard drinker, an
inveterate gambler, and, unhappily, a
man whose delight it was to lead the
inexperienced and innocent into evil.
This man declared publicly his opposi-
tion to the “preaching shop,” and his
contempt for all sacred things. “If
the sky pilot comes to my shanty,” he
said, “I’ll kick him out.”

One memorable day this man dis-
covered a spot upon his face that dis-
quieted him. He turned into the one
surgery that the little town held, to
consult the doctor. Later on he came
running out of it mad with rage and
fear. Hurrying to the saloon he began
to drink furiously. Presently he was
telling everyone with oaths and curses
that he’d got cancer of the face and
had been given only a few weeks to
live. Armed with whisky bottles and
raving drunk he reeled home to his
shanty to “drink himself” — so he pro-
claimed— “to death.”

That day the sky pilot had taken a
wide circuit of the district on horse-
back, preaching at various outlying
homesteads. In the deepening dusk of
evening he was riding slowly home,
and his course led him past the little
shack where the drunken atheist lived.
He could not help but think of the
man, though as yet he knew nothing
of his plight. Suddenly, like a flash of
lightning, memory lit up his mind
with a scene from the past. He was
seated in a large church in Melbourne.
The huge congregation filled the
building to overflowing. There was
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stood up to sing. In a magnificent
baritone voice he sang that greatest
of songs, Gounod’s “There is a green
hill far away.” As with his mind’s
eye the minister looked upon the sin-
ger’s face, he was startled to find him-
self looking at the very man who there
in that town was his implacable
enemy. The singer and the atheist
were the same man. The shock of the
discovery caused him to jerk his
horse’s head violently round. He rode
straight up to the shanty door and
rapped sharply upon it with his riding
crop. It was the face of a madman
that looked out from the partly open-
ed door. The eyes of the drunkard
fairly blazed with anger as they took
in the fact that his visitor was the
sky pilot. But before the oath was
uttered, or any attempt at violence
made, the young minister said quickly,
“I don’t want to upset you, mate, but
I wanted to tell you that I once heard
a man sing, in a church in Melbourne :
‘Tnere is a green hill far away,
Without a city wall,

Where the dear Lord was crucified,
Who died to save us all.’

“You were that man, mate!” he con-
tinued.

The drunken fury died out of the
man’s face. “Come in,” he said hoarse-
ly; then later, “Yes! I was the man
— God help me — I can’t sing it now.”
And there in that rough little shack
the sky pilot had the supreme joy of
leading that wretched soul, who had
fallen so far from virtue and decency,
back to him who is at last the only
refuge of the sinful soul.

Some weeks later the poor fellow
died. But those weeks were far hap-
pier for him than many of the preced-
ing years. When his body was laid
to rest in the little God’s Acre outside
the town, nearly everybody was pres-
ent, and after the minister had told
the story of how God had inspired his
memory they all joined in singing:

There is a green hill far away,
Without a city wall,

Where the dear Lord was crucified,
Who died to save us all.

There was no other good enough
To pay the price of sin ;

He only could unlock the gate
Of heaven, and let us in.

0, dearly, dearly has he loved,

And we must love him, too,

And trust in his redeeming blood,

And try his works to do.

— By Rev. A. D. Belden, in Sunday
School World.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONAL
WORK.

One of God’s noblest ministers in a
large city called his officials together
in his study and there revealed the
burden of his heart concerning the
great lack of personal effort to save
the lost, and how few were coming
into the church. There were fifteen
men present — bankers and business
men and professional men of high
standing. He told them of his convic-
tion that the secret of the failure was
in their not doing their duty and in
giving bright examples for all the
church membership in going person-
ally to the unsaved and talking to
them about their peril.

He asked them how many of those
present were conscious of ever having
led a soul to Christ. Only two out of
the fifteen even thought they had.
Conscience was aroused and tears em-
phasized the deep conviction. One of
them, a banker, had four sons at home
grown up to young manhood ; not once
had he spoken to them personally
about their salvation. In silence he
left the room ; he hastened home, and
before morning dawned he had taken
each of them alone and told them of
his deep interest in their souls. The
next communion Sabbath all four of
those sons stood up in their father’s
church and made confession of Christ,
and were received into the church.

The morningafter thateventful night
in his life that man went to his office
in the bank of which he was president.
The first man who came to see him
was not a Christian. He closed the
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talk to you about. I am glad we are
here alone. Do you know that I have
been a Christian ever since we have
known each other?” The man stood
dazed before him, but replied, “Yes.”
“Do you know that I am now an elder
in the Presbyterian Church?” Still
more surprised, he replied again,
“Yes.”

“Have you not thought it strange
that I never spoke to you about your
relation to Christ?” “Yes, sir,” said
the man, “and I have been in your
bank a hundred times and not only
wondered why you did not say it, but
waited for you to do so.” So in that
banker’s room that morning another
soul wras given to Christ and became
one of the brighest of his jewels. —
Incident told by Dr. Cortland Myers.

A TOOTHSOME ESKIMO
BANQUET.

The feast had already begun when
I arrived at Napsangoak’s tent. The
men were sitting in the open, behind
some seal skins which were hung in
front of the opening of the tent in
order to keep the cold wind out. They
were all dressed alike in blue fox and
Polar bear furs, and each had a “pil-
laut,” or butcher knife, in his hand.
They cut into the carcass with these
knives dripping with blood, and tore
the raw meat with their strong, beau-
tiful teeth. In the midst of this sav-
age-looking entertainment, however,
there was apparent the most genuine
courtesy. The men often helped each
other to what they considered the best
part of the seal, and the host, select-
ing a huge piece of meat, handed it to
me with the smile of a gourmand, say-
ing: “I hope you will find it to your
taste.”

I took the meat and thanked him,
but sat down at a little distance from
the others, for I hoped in an unob-
served moment to give the nauseous
mess to the dogs. As usual, on such
occasions they were standing around
as closely as they dared come, greed-

ily watching their opportunity to
snatch or catch a bit of the meat.
Alas, my host anxious, I suppose, to
see that I was happy and satisfied,
kept his eyes on me! And when he
saw that I was in no hurry to eat the
meat, remarked kindly : “Yes, it smells
so good it is truly a sin to eat it, but
let it sink down into your stomach,
anyhow — I will afterwards give you
another piece to smell on !” — Christian
Leden in World Outlook.

Our prayer should not be for a dif-
ferent kind of work, but for strength
to do well that which is confided to us.

V * * *

Darkness in the pathway of man’s
life is the shadow of God’s Provi-
dence.— J. G. Whittier.

THE WISE SPENDTHRIFT

There is a spendthrift, who, though
prodigal,

Is wise. Not he who goes from
home astray

And wanders in far land in sinful
way;

But he, who prodigal of self, like Paul

Gives labor, wisdom, love, devotion,
all

To bring mankind unto the better
day,

He gives, though men love less, and
even say

The unkind word. He gives, though
others fall.

He gives and does not hold regretful
hand

Upon his gift. He gives, he loves,
he lifts.

He gives himself for souls, not land
and gold.

He gives to God as sowers to the
land

Give seed; and as wise men of old
bought gifts.

Invests in that which fails not nor
grows old.

— Schuyler E. Sears.

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NEWS FROM THE FIELD

AND NOTES OF THE WORKERS

Edited by Mrs. Findley M. Wilson, 2410 N. Marshall Street
Philadelphia, Penna.

ORPHANS WHO NEED OUR HELP.

ORPHANS CARED FOR

IN LATAKIA BY THE

NEAR EAST RELIEF.

These little children were with our
missionaries in Latakia last winter.
In the early summer the little ones
were sent to the Orphanage in Tripoli
and the older girls sent out to work.
The young woman at the extreme
right, Miriam Heshoo, is the teacher
who had them in charge. She is still
in Latakia in charge of the boarding
girls this year and is quite a mother
to them. The girl holding the dog is
Miss Edgar’s maid at present. The
picture of these little waifs makes its
strong appeal to us. They are like
thousands of others in this coutnry
who must go hungry if we fail to pity
and help.

SOME GUNAIMIA REFUGEES.

All of the people of Gunaimia, who
had returned from the deportations
and settled in their villages, were
driven out in March last by Moslem
bandits and have since been refugees
in Latakia. For some time after their
arrival they were given 4 piasters a
day per person, and one day in the
week a good meal was cooked for
them. The picture shows some of
them enjoying this food. Later many
of them got work and their allowance
was cut off excepting for children, the
sick and women with infants. When
they came every two persons was al-
lowed a blanket and mat for sleeping
on. Since winter came on some beds
have been provided and more cover-
ing. They are all very anxious to get
back to the village, so that they may
plant their land, but the Government
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must remember that the most of these
people are the members of our Gunai-
mia congregation. A number of little
children and two or three of the older
persons have been taken home to God
since they went to Latakia. They
were no longer able to bear the trials
and privations they have been suffer-

SYRIA.

Latakia, Syria. Extracts from let-
ters of Miss Maggie B. Edgar. The
first under date of October 27 :

“Mr. Edgar and Cusees Awad are
going out to Bhamra today to hold
communion. It is the first trip for
him to make since last winter. Af-
fairs all through the country have
been in such a condition that nobody
dared to travel on any of the roads.
There are some indications now that
the Government is going to take
things seriously and do something. I
think they have not felt sure of their
position heretofore.”

On November 19 she writes: “Af-
fairs are quieter here than they have
been at any time since Spring, and
Mr. Willson writes that it is so in
their region also. We have the tele-

ing so long. These poor patient ones
are our brethren and need our earnest
prayers as well as our material aid.
Olive Trees publishes these two pic-
tures in the hope that they may visual-
ize a part of the great need of those
in the Near East and that hearts and
hands may be opened in their behalf.

graph open now between here and
Beirut — it has been cut off all spring
and summer — every time the Govern-
ment repaired it only a few days
would pass until it would be cut again,
so they stopped trying until about two
weeks ago. A trade caravan has gone
to Jiser and returned safely, also, for
the first time since early summer, so
you see how things have been tied up.
The Gunamia people are hoping now
to get back to their villages soon —
the men are very anxious to go and
get their ground plowed for grain.
The Government has brought a lot of
wheat flour and rice to help these
refugees.”

A Wedding in Latakia.

“This morning, November 30, we
were present at wedding of Miss Marie
Fattal and Mr. Anise Faris, of Tripoli.

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The bride is one of our own dear girls,
and very sweet she looked in her white
silk bridal dress. The marriage took
place in the home of her brother, Mr.
Sadick Fattal, with only a very few
near friends present, since the fam-
ily are still in mourning for the death
of Mrs. Fattal (May Elsey) . The cer-
emony was performed by Rev. Samuel
Edgar and Rev. Khalil Awad, and the
bridal pair sail today for Tripoli,
where they are to make their home.

“Marie Fattal is a child of the
church and was educated first in ouv
school here and then in the girls’
school of the Presbyterian Mission in
Beirout. In 1912 she accepted the
position of teacher in our girls’ school
here, which she filled most acceptably
until the end of the last school year.
Always willing and ready to help in
every way, steady and faithful in all
her duties, and thorough in her teach-
ing, of a sweet and gentle disposition,
she endeared herself to her pupils and
her friends. It is with great regret
we part with her as a teacher and
helper, but we rejoice with her in her
happines as she leaves us for her new
home. Mr. Faris is the son of Mr.
Yusef Faris, an elder in the Tripoli
Presbyterian Church. He first saw
his bride as she was returning from
school one vacation time, was attract-
ed, and soon after wrote to her brother
intimating that he would like a fur-
ther acquaintance. As both were quite
young he was advised to wait for a
time. Later he renewed his request,
which was granted, and now both
have received the desire of their
hearts. Our best wishes go with these
young friends and we trust that this
new Christian home may be the center
of a sweet and gracious influence upon
all who enter it and that the home-
makers may have a long and happy
life bound together in the bonds of
love and service for Christ their
Lord.”

ASIA MINOR.

Mersine, Asia Minor. Rev. R. E.
Willson, writing on November 15th,
says: “Local conditions seem to be
more quiet for the past week or two.
Trains are now running regularly be-
tween Mersine and Adana, once each
day; this now for about a week. For
some days before the railroad was re-
paired the country was clear enough
so that the autos could go and come
between here and Adana. The brig-
ands seem to be driven far enough
back for the time being to make it
comparatively safe in the neighbor-
hood, and the people are going out
now to pick some of the cotton. To
the west of us, however, operations
seem still to be going on. Night before
last there was much cannon and rifle
fire in that direction, and yesterday
morning quite a brisk bombardment
from the French warship. However,
on the whole, we feel that we can say
that things seem, to be considerably
improved over a month ago, and we
only hope that they will continue to
improve.

“In spite of the present improve-
ment, the prospect for the winter is
a very gloomy one for the poor people.
If the country should become entirely
quiet at once, which is hardly to be
expected, the change has come too late
to benefit the poor people much for
this winter. All summer most of the
population has been without employ-
ment. Prices of necessities were such
that even those that had some work
were able to live simply from hand to
mouth. We hear almost every day
from all classes of people: ‘We saw
no such hard times here even in the
worst days of the war.’ Scarcely any
one of the poorer people have been
able to make provision for the winter,
as is their custom. We shrink from
the winter for so far as we can see
there is certain to be much suffering
if not actual starvation.

“We have not attempted anything in
Tarsus so far this fall except to keep
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gelist is still here with us in Mersine,
and has been doing the preaching for
all summer. The services in Tarsus
have been, and are, in charge of one
Manook, whom Kasees Mikhail re-
gards as a very faithful man. We
have been making an effort in Mer-
sine to work up the Sabbath School.
The result has been rather encour-
aging so far. We have had an attend-
ance of 70 to 75, and most of these
remain for the preaching service
which follows immediately. Further
developments in the general situation
must determine what we will be able
to attempt in Tarsus.

“The word from Adana is also en-
couraging, and now that the train is
running I hope to go there soon to see
the brethren. The two daughters of
Kasees Hanna Besna came down from
Adana last week to enter school here
again. They were six weeks late but
this could not be helped owing to cir-
cumstances. We were not able, of
course, to move to any other house in
Adana or even to look for any other
house. The house we are using is too
small and not in any way suitable, but
we will have to make it do for another
year. The girls say that the attend-
ance has been increasing and that the
room where they meet is too small to
accommodate the people that come.

“Schools are doing well, but I will
let Miss French report on that. She
is more than busy, and some of the
rest of us think sometimes we are the
same. However, we are all feeling
more fit since the weather has become
cooler and we praise the Lord for good
health and something to do.”

CHINA.

Do Sing, China. On December 1,
Rev. R. C. Adams wrote from Do Sing.
His letter contains the glad news that
the war is over.

“Although conditions have been
very much unsettled and there has
been war, the Lord has taken care of
all of us and now the war is over, the
Kwongtung soldiers having been de-

feated and having retreated to their
own province. Tak Hing and Do Sing
were in the line of their retreat and
the populace was very fearful lest they
should do much damage but no
damage of any consequence was done.
We feel that it was not human power
which restrained the hands of a de-
feated army passing through the en-
emy’s country, and caused them to
refrain from molesting tne country.
Some damage was done at other places
but none in our territory. We met
quite a number of the soldiers and
they were fine men, several Christians
among them. Now we have the
Kwongtung army with us and among
the soldiers we have found several
Cnristians and among all the soldiers
there seems to be a willingness to hear
tne Gospel Message.

“All in the Mission are well and
seem to be busy. We are beginning
to make preparations for our Mission
meeting, which will, perhaps, be held
beginning January 21, the first two
days being for Bible Study and
Prayer. We desire to begin our meet-
ing at the place we left off last year
when the Holy Spirit was working
mightily.”

Writing at an earlier date, Novem-
ber 12, Mr. Adams tells:

“We have just closed a series of
meetings for women here at Do Sing.
Miss Huston and Miss Stewart were
the speakers and did fine work. The
meetings lasted six days and every
day the house was filled. Yesterday,
the day after the meetings closed,
many women came to the chapel, hop-
ing there would be another meeting,
as there was no boat on which Miss
Huston and Miss Stewart could go
back to Tak Hing, but Miss Huston
and Miss Stewart and Mrs. Adams
had gone out calling on the women
who had been much interested in the
doctrine. There is large opportunity
here. We had planned for a series of
general evangelistic meetings at the
same time, having the women’s meet-
ings in the day time and general meet-
ings at night, but owing to the unset-

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tied conditions the evangelists could
not get here from Lo Ting. We may
have the meetings later if conditions
permit. Peace has not yet come and
we may not have quietness for some
time. Things are quiet at all of our
stations, I think, though rumors
flourish.”

* * * *

Canton, China. — A member of the
Board of Foreign Missions received a
letter from Dr. J. M. Wright, of the
Canton Hospital, which he gener-
ously passes on for Olive Trees. Dr.
Wright dates his letter from Canton,
December 10th, 1920.

“We arrived here in the midst of
a revolution and witnessed consider-
able military activity. I have seen
fighting here several times before,
and the only added novelty was the
airplanes, which dropped bombs that
helped to hasten matters. I have
since talked with some of the flyers,
and they say that they had instruc-
tions to drop powder bombs only and
with the purpose of frightening the
enemy. As far as I know this plan
succeeded admirably. I saw no one
injured by the bombs, but many who
were greatly frightened. We received
many wounded soldiers in the hos-
pital for treatment. Our sympathy
has always been with the San Yet
Sen party, which has now come into
power again in Canton. One of our
fellow-passengers from Shanghai to
Hong Kong was Mr. Frank Lee, who
is now Secretary of Foreign Affairs
here. I had known him before and
had many talks with him on the way
down. The plans for the new regime
as explained by him are splendid. He
gave me a rough outline of them to
read over and promised to send me
a bound book of them when com-
pleted. Mr. Woo Ting Fong was here
today for treatment. He is a fine old
man to meet and a strong advocate
of just government. You will re-
member that he was at one time Min-
ister to America. Dr. San Yet Sen
is also in the city now and sent a let-

ter of greeting to Dr. Thompson, Sr.,
who is at present in Canton Hospital.
Dr. Thompson came here about forty
years ago, and was for a long time
connected with the work and received
Dr. San Yet Sen with others as medi-
cal students into this institution. The
new Police Commissioner headed the
list in securing new names for mem-
bership in the Y. M. C. A. this last
month. While speaking of Mr. Frank
Lee I should have said that he is a
Christian man, and nearly every Sab-
bath preaches to the members of a
Baptist church in the city. I asked
him if all the new officials are pro-
fessing Christians, and he answered
that not all were, but that all were in
sympathy with Christianity and that
he expected that many, if not all,
would become professors.

“There is to be an effort to have a
great evangelistic campaign in a few
weeks. All departments of evange-
listic activity, that is, ministerial, edu-
cational and medical, are to take ac-
tive part. A large building is being
erected, and a room in it is being
given over to the exhibition of medi-
cal effort, such as hygiene, sanita-
tion, preventative measures, nursing,
care of children, etc.

“We have weekly prayer meetings
held in our house every Thursday
night by people in our vicinity. Last
night Rev. Johnston, of the American
Bible Society, was the leader. He was
in the Levant for a number of years
and is acquainted with all our older
missionaries there. His wife was for-
merly a nurse in a hospital in Smyrna
under, I think, the Scottish Mission.

“Our work begins in the hospital
here at 7.20 A. M. by all the doctors
and nurses having a ten-minute
prayer; 9 A. M., chapel for a half-
hour for all the hospital, and 7 P. M.
is a meeting for Bible study for all
the hospital employees. During the
last three months the average pro-
fessed conversion in the hospital is
one person a day. Just this morning
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in one of my wards who had been bit-
terly opposed to Christianity. He was
a soldier (an officer) , and in the revo-
lution he took part in destroying a
chapel. Later he was wounded and
sent here, and now he has been con-
verted. The people here are showing
quite a liking for Psalm singing, and
by request a lot of Psalm books are
placed in the Chapel here for use in
the services.

“My own personal work is chief
surgeon, pathologist and chairman of
the staff. The work is heavy at pres-
ent, but pleasant and enjoyable. The
staff chairman is the go-between in
all hospital questions, in the different
departments, and is supposed to act
for the staff and the Board of Direc-
tors between meetings where all his
actions are reviewed. The spirit of
harmony is such that the office is not
a burden. Besides, we have the stu-
dents from two medical colleges at-
tending our clinics. All our work,
whether in the operating room or in
the out-patient clinics, is preceded by
a service. Also I am chairman of the
Canton chapter of the American Red
Cross, which has jurisdiction over the
Canton consular district, Kwong
Tung, Kwong Sai, Kweichow and Yu-
nan Provinces. This at times entails
considerable time.

“Paul is in school at the Canton
Christian College here. This school
was opened this year, and we hope
they will continue and take up high
school work next year. Paul finishes
the grades this year and will be ready
for high school next autumn. We
hear frequently from all our mission
members, and Miss Huston and Rev.
and Mrs. Mitchell have made us a
visit. We expect others soon. All
are well and busy as usual.”

REPORT OF WINCHESTER L. M. S.

FOR 1920.

As a society we have great reason
to record God’s goodness to us.

We have held twelve regular
monthly meetings, five work meetings
and two other special meetings.

One of our aged and highly esteem-
ed members, Mrs. E. J. Milligan, has

passed on to the Heavenly Home.
Rarely was she absent from our meet-
ings until she became an invalid.

We quilted three quilts, one of
which was given to Miss Elma French.
Two quilts and four mattress covers
were sent to Mersina Boarding
School.

Six quilts were contributed by dif-
ferent ladies for Cyprus Mission. A
box containing 292 garments was sent
for Syrian Relief.

Two delegates were sent to our
Presbyterial Convention at Eskridge.

The society takes The Missionary
Review of the World. We have taken
the Mission study which is outlined
for us and have corresponded monthly
with our two foreign lady mission-
aries— Miss E. French and Mrs. J. C.
Mitchel.

Through our efforts a rug was pur-
chased for the Mothers’ Room of the
church.

January 11, balance $25.60

Monthly dues 55.70

Free-will and donations 281.48

Miss Houston's salary 75.87

Mission Study Books 12.60

Flower Fund 9.10

$460.35

Disbursed.

Benevolent $30.00

Miss Houston’s Salary 75.87

Girl’s Tuition. Mersine 120.00

Mersine Supplies 22.35

Mersine School Fund 7.65

Synodical Fund 13.00

Support of Girl in China .... 25.00

To Needy Babe 20.40

Syrian Relief 21.15

Flowers 7.26

per Capita Fund 5.10

Magazine, Folders and Cards. 7.50
Expenses (postage, express,

etc.) 12.79

Library Fund 4.86

Rug and Freight 45.52

Mission Study Books 12.10

$430.55

Balance $29.80

Vinnie Steuart,

Treasurer.

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OBITUARY.

Mrs. M. J. McFarland.

The Woman’s Missionary Society
of the Belle Centre Congregation de-
sires to place on record a tribute to
the memory of Mrs. M. I. McFarland,
who passed from death to life Decem-
ber 12, 1919. She loved the House
of God and was a faithful follower of
her Master. She died in faith, trust-
ing in her Saviour. “Blessed are the
dead who die in the Lord.’’

Mrs. Robert Rambo,

Mrs. I. A. Templeton,

Committee.

* * * *

Mrs. Kate Henry Neill.

The Women’s Missionary Society of
the Second Church of Philadelphia
wishes to bear testimony to the loss it
has sustained in the death of Mrs.
Kate Henry Neill. We miss her pres-
ence in our society and in the church
services. Not only was she regular in
attendance but willing to do her part
in any work undertaken.

Her last illness was brief and
should be a warning to the rest of
us to be also ready for we know not
the day nor the hour when the Son
of Man cometh.

Marian H. Crawford,
Jennie R. Finley.

On the morning of November 26,
Mrs. Mary A. Peoples, a beloved
member of the Second Church, Phila-
delphia, and mother of Dr. John
Peoples, medical missionary to Mer-
sine, entered into rest. Her life was
one of consecration to her Lord and
Master. Her genial presence and wise
counsel will be missed in the Women’s
Missionary and Aid Societies.

Though feeble in health for a num-
ber of years she did not consider her
own strength but was ever ready to
lend her assistance and sympathy to
those in sickness or distress.

She had the true missionary spirit,
grasping every opportunity to press
the claims of the Saviour upon all
with whom she came in contact, and
praying for the soul’s salvation of

those with whom she had only a casual
acquaintance.

Besides Dr. John Peoples, two
daughters, both active workers in the
church, and a sister, Miss Sallie Mor-
rison, of the First Church, mourn her
loss.

May the memory of her sanctified
life be an inspiration to each of us for
more devoted service to the Saviour
she loved and served.

Mrs. J. C. McFeeters,
Mrs. R. M. Finlay,

Mrs. R. J. Crawford,

Committee.

A GREETING FROM LATAKIA TO
THE BOARD OF FOREIGN
MISSIONS.

Even the Board of Foreign Missions
is yet so human as to be able to appre-
ciate kind expressions which come
from the consecrated servants of the
Lord Jesus on the field. Among the
many such received from time to time
here is one which is official, and so
we feel warranted in publishing it.

Latakia, November 26.
To the Foreign Board of the R. P.

Church. ‘

Dear Fathers and Brethren:

On behalf of the members of the
Latakia Station I wish to extend our
thanks towards the close of the year
for all the aid that you have so
thoughtfully and carefully given us,
your servants in the Mission Field.
Your prayers and your constant in-
terest have ever made the work a joy
even when burdens were heavy.

Believe us when we say it is a high
privilege to serve under your direc-
tion and counsel. And we ask for the
new workers you sent us that same
loving and faithful interest that has
ever been your wont to give to the
workers abroad.

We join together in warmest wishes
to you all and to your families for the
New Year, praying that His rich
blessings may fill your lives and
homes.

For the Mission Circle,

S. Edgar, Chairman.

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WOMEN’S DEPARTMENT

Edited by Mrs. J. S. Martin a id Mrs. M. E. Metheny,
College Hill, Beaver Falls, Pa.

THE BIBLE AND MISSIONS.

Chapter IV.

The Travels of the Book.

1. What other agency contemporary

with translators and Bible So-
cieties ?

2. What of the supply of Bibles in

1800, and prices?

3. When and where was the British

and Foreign Bible Society
founded, and under what cir-
cumstances?

4. Of the times and politics and sec-

tarian controversies then?

5. How far did the Society extend in

twelve years?

6. How did it come to Wales?

7. What translation was made for

Scotland?

8. How many tongues in Britain?

9. What economic conditions pre-

vented the sale of books ?

10. In what places on the Continent

were Societies formed?

11. What of its introduction into

Russia, and suppression?

12. The attitude of the Pope?

13. How many were listed in 1910,

and how were most of them lim-
ited?

14. What famous men have been con-

nected with the Society ?

15. What effect had the American

Revolution on the supply of
Bibles?

16. What action did Congress take in

1777?

17. When and where was the first

Bible in the U. S. printed?

18. What five policies are followed by

the Societies?

19. Why is the Bible used in exam-

ining immigrants?

20. What agency have the Bible So-

cieties in mission work?

21. What is the estimate of the books

bought in 1919, and where were
they bought?

22. What book is the best seller in the

world ?

23. What do these Societies do besides

finance translation, and print?

24. Where may we find colporteurs?

25. Of what race are they?

26. Who began work among prisoners

in Japan?

27. What difference has this made in

prisons?

28. Give the story of the Korean rev-

olution.

29. Give an account of the Chinese

philanthropist, Yung Tao.

30. Of the Hindoo who found a torn

leaf of John’s Gospel?

31. In what wars have soldiers been

supplied with Scriptures?

32. How many volumes has the Amer-

ican Bible Society supplied for
soldiers and sailors and fighting
forces in Europe in the World
War?

33. The British, and Foreign, and the

Scotch in the same time?

34. In all, and to how many peoples

and languages?

35. Who were contributors to the

funds?

36. What great soldiers recommend

it?

37. What statesmen?

38. What is the work of the Pocket

Testament League?

39. How did the men receive the

books?

40. What of some seed sown by the

wayside ?

41. What bearing have these facts on

life?

42. What of the observance of Bible

Day?

43. Five cents from each S. S.

scholar each Bible Day would
be how much?

Mary E. Metheny.

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JUNIOR DEPARTMENT.

Lamplighters Across the Sea.

Chapter V.

“Answering the Giant Question
Mark.”

Dear Boys and Girls.

When mother tucks you in bed at
night and turns the light out, she says,
“Now, do not be afraid. God loves
and watches over His little ones and
keeps them safely all through the
night.” Then you look out through
the open window and see the moon
and stars shining and they tell you
that the God, who counts the stars and
marks the sparrow’s fall, can keep
you safely through the night, and
you shut your eyes and are off to the
“Sandman’s Land” until morning sun-
light wakens you to another day of
happy work and play.

But a long time ago, the poor little
black boys and girls were afraid even
in the daytime, and not one of them
would stir out of the house at night.
The dear little birds that sing to us,
frightened them, and the wonderful
stars that reveal God to us, seemed to
them very cold and far away. Evil
Spirits, they thought, were always
seeking to injure them. Were dear
little twin babies born, they were
thrown out to die in the bushes, for
the Evil Spirits were in them. Such
fear in every black boy’s heart, and
Oh ! the poor little girls !

Not only were their skins black, but
every heart was shrouded in clouds of
deepest darkness, sin, ignorance and
superstition. Until, one day, Robert
Moffatt, took a “Lamp” to them. And
then! Oh! the wonderful difference!
Their skins may still he black, but now
their hearts are becoming just as
white, cleansed by the blood of Christ.
And Moffat and Livingstone, and
Mackay, and Mary Slessor, and many,
many other lamplighters went every-
where establishing “Light Houses”
and working miracles under God. For

while the “leopard cannot change his
spots, nor the Ethiopian his skin,”
God can make black hearts white as
snow and take away hard and stony
hearts and give people new hearts.

The Bible answers all the questions
and stills the fears of every little Afri-
can boy and girl. It goes to the women
shut up in the Moorish houses for fear
a man other than their husband might
see them, and carries comfort and in-
spiration. It crosses the desert and
goes to Arab, Hindu, Persian and
many others whose skins are of many
shades. But everywhere the light
shines, the black hearts become white,
whatever the color of the skin.

And now we need to give the Bible
not only to Turkey and the Arme-
nians, to oppressor and oppressed, but
to the descendants of Moses, Isaiah
and the prophets. The Jews are re-
turning to Palestine in large numbers.
The Zionists plan to colonize 50,000
in the land which will ever be “Home”
to Jewish hearts. Let us see that
there, too, the Lamp, which once burn-
ed so brightly, and is now so dim, is
rekindled through the grace of Jesus
Christ, who can make even these hard
and stony hearts which have shut Him
out of their lives, to become white and
new. Every Jewish man and woman
should have the “Lamp” of God’s
Word to guide their feet and “light
their path” in the return to Jerusalem.

Mary A. McWilliams.

One who frankly confesses himself
to be in the wrong when he is, will be
found mostly in the right.

H: * ❖ *

He who has conferred a kindness
should be silent; he who has received

one should speak of it. — Seneca.

* * * *

It isn’t a good plan to allow your
regrets for yesterday to overshadow

your hopes for tomorrow.

* * * *

Experience teaches us what fools
we have been, but it doesn’t always
prevent us from repeating.

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SCRAPS FROM THE NEAR EAST TABLE.

Alexandretta, Nov. 26, 1920.

How many children have I ? In High
School, freshmen, 8 boys and 3 girls;
sophomore, 5 boys and 4 girls; in
primary, 11 boys and 8 girls. In the
grades 48 boys and 26 girls.

My school-day schedule? Breakfast,

6.30. Family prayers and muddling
about till I go over to school at 7.30.
Odds and ends until 7.55. Then the
children assemble in the big hall,
where we sing a psalm, and say a few
verses in concert. That takes some
ten minutes, then I give the High
School classes a Bible lesosn until
8.30; sixth and fifth grades English
conversation until 9. Freshman
French until 9.30; music lesson or
odd bits until 10. Geography or Soph.
Hygiene until 10.30 ; Soph. Scale
Drawing until 11. Soph. French till

11.30. Then I am off to the house for
lunch and siesta till 12.30, when I go
back to school and see to odds and ends
till 1. That is Soph. Math, time; 1.30,
fifth grade, French ; 2.00, sixth grade,
French; 2.30, piano lesson; 3, Fresh-
man English ; 3.30, Soph. English.
Ever since I took my piano over I play
for the children to march out. Four
o'clock I go home to tea, and directly
it is over we three go for our walk of
an hour or more.

December 11.

Golden and incomparable news !
Shall 1 go off with it to a corner, like
little Jack Horner? Nay, let me share
it with you. The December copy of
the Ladies’ Home Journal has just
come into my hands, and there on the
68th page I read these words, fit to be
engraved on tablets of brass, “The
day of the flapper is over. The sil-
houette both for afternoon and even-
ingwear is decidedly longer than ithas
been. Not the wriggling thinness of
the vampire, but the elegant long
slinkiness of the lady.” Oh! if any
of you are privileged to behold the
lovely vision of a slinky lady , in pity

describe the gracious sight to me, liv-
ing in these barbarous wilds, far from
the refining influences of civilization.
* * * There are pictures, two of

which struck me especially. One is of
a lady in a silk evening coat, the
whole thing, lady and all, looking ex-
traordinarliy like a ventral view of a
beetle feigning death. The other
shows a lady in a fur coat, and it is
like a dorsal view of a reconstructed
iguanodon — one of the beasts in my
Prehistoric Animal Book.

I wish you could see how fast the
houses are being put up for the refu-
gees who are to live here. They are
being made of unsmoothed youngtrees
for a frame, and the sides of wicker
and mud, and the roofs of thatch.
Each has five rooms of, say 17 by 15,
and a family will occupy each room.
The place is on the east side of the
town ; the site is being all drained off.
It does make me so glad to see it.

It looks as if the coast was going
to be built around for miles by the
authorities. The water frontage will
compare very well with that, of Alex-
andria. I am very much interested in
it all.

The matter of voting will try out
women now. Women have been pretty
self-righteous. It may do them good
to find out that given the same temp-
tations and immunities as men they
are likely to behave pretty much as
men do.

I have gone over the top with a
little over £100 for last April, May
and summer, and this October, Nov-
ember and December. Not bad is it?
I have sold above £40 worth of books
over and above that. It proves that
the people value education for their
children. May God’s blessing go with
the education so it may bring a bless-
ing and not a curse. * * * There

is a great sight from my west window.
A smallish steamer loaded with gaso-
line got afire about five this evening.
Now she is standing out to sea, still

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burning, the plates on the sides red-
hot. It is a sad sight.

One of my teachers is ill with para-
typhoid, poor girl ; so for more than
a week, and I do not know how much
longer yet; one girl, one man and I
have to do the work with the help of
one or two of the Sophomore girls.
Tne girls do very well at teaching.

Evangeline Metheny.

* * * *

Latakia, December 9, 1920.

These items are from Mrs. Balph.
The reference in the first sentence is
to the daughter of Rosa Dimian, long
ago a pupil in the Latakia school, and
later a teacher in the Tarsus Field.
This girl is a graduate of the Mersine
schol and went to Egypt to her broth-
er’s wedding and has stayed there to
teach.

“It is such a pity that Rosa’s Lateefy
stayed in Egypt. We have now given
to Egypt two of the best teachers we
ever had among our own girls. These
are two of the only three that ever fin-
ished the course, and then kept on
studying and improving. The other
one went to visit a brother in Alex-
andria in the summer of T4, when the
war was on, and I asked her to stay
then as I knew not what would
happen. She has been teaching for
the U. P.’s ever since. Mrs. Kennedy
told me that they thought a lot of her,
and that she was doing good work.
Lateefy is a better mathematician, and
a wider reader, and I am sure will do
good work. December 14th, Dr. Balph
had a letter from Mr. Willson written
on the 8th. He told of a great con-
flagration they had a few days before.
The burning of 11,000 boxes of petro-
leum. What a pity when fuel is so
scarce. People were so dependent
upon these little stoves for generating
gas upon which they cook. The heat-
ing problem is a serious one every-
where. He said no wood could be had
from the mountains, and the charcoal,
too, comes from the same place, and
they hardly ever see any. They had
not yet put up their heating stove, and
they have been having ice for a week.

I suppose they are not able to get coal,
either; it is so dear that steamers in
these waters just creep along to save
coal.

“A lot of wounded French soldiei’s —
18 — were brought into the Govern-
ment Hospital last week, where Sadik
works part of the time, and all of
them were wounded in the legs or feet.
Their regiment went out to gather
arms from the rebel Fellaheen, and
were fired upon from all directions,
when they were down in a narrow
ravine. They simply had to retreat, for
the enemy were hidden behind rocks
and trees. It was evident that the
Fellaheen aimed low.

“I forgot to tell you that Nishan,
Old Gurgis’ son, who had been in
Texas for some years with his family,
came back last summer with one of his
sons, and after procuring brides for
two of the sons, this one and an older
one, who is taking care of the business
in the U. S. during their absence, has
started back with the rest of the fam-
ily, all except one girl whom they mar-
ried and left in the house they have
here. The boy who came with him
married a Shamy girl; I think a
cousin of the girl, Olga, Shamy, of
whom you inquire. Olga has gone
with them.”

* * * *

Alexandretta, Dec. 15, 1920.

This is a lovely bright day and quite
warm. It does not seem possible that
Christmas is so near. It is more like
spring.

It is such a joy to me to see Evan-
geline so much better in health. I
wish you would come and see her in
her school, and with her Bible Class
of young men.

The situation on the whole is much
better than it was, but, like measles,
you never know just when things will
break out. Teacher Antanious, his
wife and three youngest children are
here on their way to Haifa. His older
children, the most of them, have good
berths with the British in Palestine.

Jennie B. Kennedy.

FOREIGN MISSIONARIES OF THE SYNOD OF THE REFORMED PRES. CHURCH

Latakia, Syria.

Rev. James S. Stewart, D. D. furp0nugh

Mrs. James S. Stewart fUr?ough

Rev. Samuel Edgar

Mrs. Samuel Edgar

J. M. Balph, M. D

Mrs. J. M. Balph

Miss Maggie B. Edgar

Miss Annie L. Kennedy

Mersine, Asia Minor.

Rev. Robert E. Willson

Mrs. Robert E. Willson

Rev. Andrew J. McFarland fur?0nugh
Mrs. Andrew J. McFarland fur?0nugb

John Peoples, M. D • • • furlough

Mrs. John Peoples

Miss M. Elma French

Language School , Beirut, Syria

Miss Mary E. Shanks

Miss Elizabeth McElroy

Larnaca, Cyprus

Rev. Alvin W. Smith

Mr. Ernest V. Tweed

Nicosia, Cyprus

Calvin McCarroll, M. D

Mrs. Calvin McCarroll

Tak Hing Chau, West River,
South China

Rev. A. I. Robb, D. D

Mrs. A. I. Robb

Rev. J. K. Robb fu^

Mrs. J. K. Robb

Rev. Julius A. Kempf

Mrs. Julius A. Kempf

Kate W. McBurney, M. D

Miss Mary R. Adams

Miss Rose A. Huston

Miss Nellie A. Brownlee

Rev. Jesse C. Mitchel

Mrs. Jesse C. Mitchel

Miss Lilian J. McCracken

Do Sing, West River, South China

Rev. R. C. Adams

Mrs. R. C. Adams

Canton Medical Missionary Union,
Canton, South China

James M. Wright, M. D

Mrs. James M. Wright

Lo Ting, Via Canton, South China

E. J. M. Dickson, M. D. fur?0nnfh

Mrs. E. J. M. Dickson

Miss Jean M. Barr

Rev. William M. Robb

Mrs. William M. Robb

Miss Ella Margaret Stewart

Miss Jennie M. Dean

Miss M. Edna Wallace, M. D

HOME MISSIONARIES OF THE REFORMEO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Indian Mission, Apache, Okla.

Rev. W. W. Carithers, Superintendent.

Miss Inez Wickerham

Miss Ellen Wilson

Miss Irene McMurtry

Miss Mae Allen

Mission of the Covenant, 800 South 6th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

.'fiss Annie Forsyth
Miss Emma M. McFarland

Volunteers

Miss Anna Thompson
Miss Isabel McFarland
Miss Margaret Johnston
Mr. Robert Crawford
Mr. Samuel Jackson
Mr. Melville Pearce
Miss Anna Thompson

The Cameron Society of
the Second Church.

Southern Mission, Selma, Ala.

Rev. S. A. Edgar, Superintendent
Miss Minnie L. Wilson, Principal
Miss Veda Twinam, High School
Mrs. C. E. Brooks, Grammar School
Miss Mary Wilson, Sixth Grade
Miss Laura Weir, Fifth Grade
Mrs. M. I. Robb, Fourth Grade
Miss Jennie Smith, Third Grade
Miss E. A. Martin, Second Grade
Miss Elsie McGee, Primary
Miss Mary E. Fowler, Girls’ Indus. Dept.
Prof. Theo. B. Lee, Boys’ Indus. Dept.
Miss Sophie Kingston, East Selma
Mrs. Lila Craig, East Selma
Mrs. Louise Kynette, Pleasant Grove
Miss Ella Hays, Home Visitor
Mrs. E. 0. Senegal, Home Visitor

Board of Foreign Missions Reformed Presbyterian Church

President

S. A. STERRETT METHENY, M. D., 6i7 N. 43d Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Vice-Pesident

J. C. McFEETERS, D. D., 1719 Mt. Vernon St., Philadelphia, Pa-

Stcond Vice-President
R. J. BOLE, 170 Broadway, New York
Corresponding Secretary

FINDLEY M. WILSON, D. D., 2410 N. Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Recording Secretary

F. M. FOSTER, Ph. D., 305 W. 29th St., New York City.

Treasurer

JOSEPH M. STEELE 1600 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Transportation Agent

SAMUEL R. BOGGS, Kensington Avenue and Ontario Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

POST OFFICE ADDRESSES OF TREASURERS

Syrian Mission, Mission in China, Mission of The Covenant and Church Erection —
Mr. Joseph M Steele, 1600 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Domestic Mission; Southern Mission ; Indian Mission ; Testimony Bearing Sustentation;
Theological Seminary; Ministers’, Widows’ and Orphans' Fund; Literary, Students’ Aid;

National Reform — Mr. J. S. Tibby, 411 Penn Building. Pittsburgh, Pa.

Aged People’s Home — Mrs. Agnes C. Steele, 139 S. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.

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