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NEGLECTED ARABIA

Missionary News and Letters
Published Quarterly
FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION AMONG THE FRIENDS OF
THE ARABIAN MISSION

Annual- Meeting of the Arabian Mission .

INTRODUCTORY NOTE
T HE articles in this issue reflect the evangelistic work of the Arabian
Mission, its problems, its successes, its relation to other types of
work. It seemed appropriate to add to such a number the resolu­
tions passed by the Mission at its annual meeting in November,
Uiuching upon topics vital to this Mission which had its birth in the con-
iiiining evangelistic zeal of its founders. The eloquent appeal of the
Minion to the Home Church comes with peculiar force as it is associated
*ilh the new phase of its history in amalgamation with the Board of
Foreign Missions, and particularly with the retirement of one of the
(builders, the Rev. James Cantlne, with whom is joined in loving thought
)4r$. Cantine who has nobly shared with him so many years of service.
—Ed.

, A Message to the Church at Home
The Arabian Mission at its meeting held in Basrah, in November,
jy>0, requests the Board to bring to the attention of the church the
« following salient facts:
|. That God is now stretching forth His hand in a marvellous way and
convincing the hearts of the Arabs to a realization of their need of
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Jesus Christ as the only sufficient Saviour. In. every one of our five
nations men and women are studying the Word and are iu increasing
numbers evincing a concern for the deepest needs of their* souls. Not
a year passes without baptisms of converts, and it is beginning to be -i
increasingly possible for such converts to lead the Christ life publicly.

» That God is manifestly working out this purpose among Islamic
peoples, as is shown in Persia where converts already number hun­
dreds, and in Turkey, where in the space of less than five years
obstacles have been removed which normally would have hindered *
die progress of God's Kingdom a century or more.

^ That all the above results are to be ascribed not more to the specific
nork of the missionaries than to the prayers of God's people.
^ That in view of the challenge of open doors, urgent invitations, and •-v
(allow hearts and minds, we implore the Church to relieve us of the ■ s;
t{3ggering burden of deficits and reduced appropriations.