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Oar photograph shows such a doorway, and also gives a
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I group of typical Arabs at Makallah—the Bedouin, the townsman, l
and the slave. Would to God that some one would see_that here
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is an open door for the Gospel as well !
Ever since Mohammed's successors blotted out the dying !
Christianity of Nejran and Yemen and Socotra this “valley of i
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death’* has never heard the message of life. In Sanaa, the
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A GROUP OK TYPICAL ARABS AT MAKALLAH, HADKAMAUT.
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• * cathedral of Abraha, built in 567 a. d., is now used for a Turkish 7 {
• cavalry stable. In Hadramaut there are inscriptions that tell of t
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a Christ who is known no longer. In Socotra, on the hill Ditrerre, 1
of the Hamar range, c< a perfect mass of crosses*' of every pos­
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sible shape is carved, perhaps to mark a Christian burial-ground.* !
4 Alas ! now neither the hill tribes of Yemen, nor the people of Socotra, i
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I • *5ec ihc appendix of Bertt’s “ Southern Arabia. "
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