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plain, but she applied all her medical knowledge and common sense to
working out a regime, by which she could live in Arabia and not be
the cause of her husband's withdrawal to America. Not once but many f
times we have seen her pull herself up from what looked like a hopeless '
situation and make herself equal to the resumption of normal life and
work. She never wasted any energy in bemoaning her curtailed activity
nor in “kicking against the pricks.” <•;
Mrs. Cantine had a genius for friendship and her friendships knew ^
no geographical nor racial bounds. Her deep personal interest in her -*i
friends and all that concerned them, extended from old black Wurda, sell. 1
ing peanuts in front of her little Basrah serifa, up to the wife of Sir -I
Percy Cox. She was an ideal fellow-worker in the station, delightful
to co-operate with and unfailing in appreciation and wise counsels. She j?
rejoiced in all advance and was always glad to see new methods tried. *'•
Her pioneer spirit was never more manifested than by the interest and *
enthusiasm which she put into the new venture of the United Mission :j
in Mesopotamia, when she and Dr. Cantine helped to establish it- My i
association with the Cantines is so deep that it is difficult for me to J
express all it has meant to me. As a new young missionary I travelled • j
to Arabia with them in 1909 and during my whole first period of work i
I was in the same station with them. Mrs. Cantine's interest and advice
when I was in the difficult task of beginning the Basrah Girl's School ]
was no more intense than her interest in my first baby. i
For her release from pain and entrance into life more abundant, we j
rejoice. For her life's comrade, left now to travel the rest of the road ;
alone, we feel deep sympathy. For ourselves, though we mourn the
end of earthly fellowship, we thank God for the promise of eternal ^
fellowship.
But lo, there breaks a yet more glorious day.
The saints triumphant rise in bright array,
The King of Glory passes on His way.
Alleluia!

Our Kurdish Neighbors J

Rev. R. C. Cumberland j
Noth—Rev. Roger C. Cumberland is a member of the United Mission in Meio* j
IMitamia. His special field is that among the Kurds whom he describes m this 'j
article. Mr. Cumberland is laboring to reduce the Kurdish language to writing j
and hopes to translate the Bible into Kurdish.—Ed. j j
I T is with genuine pleasure that I undertake to tell the readers of
Neglected Arabia something of Kurdistan. But first I want to speak
a word of congratulation to the supporters of the Arabian Mission: J
you have on the field the finest body of missionaries, as a whole, 1
that I know anything about. It has been my privilege to meet most of 1
them personally, and I have been intimately associated with some of i
them in the work of the United Mission in Mesopotamia. Although j
Dr. and Mrs. Cantine were with us only a short time, the contact wc i
younger missionaries had with them will remain an inspiration to uj j
throughout our lives. At present (as many of you know) Mr. Uamy u

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