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THROUGH FRIENDSHIP TO THE GREAT FRIEND
“The ministry of friendship,” writes Mr. Bilkert, “seems still to
be the most effective instrument for tearing down Islam’s defensive
wall." Therefore our evangelistic workers, both men and woraeu,
in Iraq and down the Gulf have gone about meeting and making
friends under all circumstances possible. The men have visited?,
regularly in the bazaars where they are more certain of finding the 4
Arab men. Friends are to be found in nearly every section of each
town’s bazaar and they receive the missionaries with varying <fe.
grees of cordiality. Mr. Bilkert has been taking a bag containing
literature with him on these visits.
The evangelistic women workers find their great opportunities in
the native homes, for the Arab women lead secluded lives for tbs

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WOMEN WASHING AT A WELL.

most part. They welcome the missionaries gladly, are eager to coo-

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lessons given to women in lhc‘^oingbK women in all the station
to the mission house twice a week, liibi missis
have done faithful work in supplementing

“m™. Penning, reports that so tnany homes are ope. »tUag.rt.
visits that she would welcome aiJ°^er' ^ ««Mrs Harrison w* 1
also tells of the tour to Demam and Ka 0 ffive readings isU I
besieged from early morning till late a n.gh to give readmgs * 1
to sing hymns to eager and enthusiast . I
. ^ly'rea reP°rts ‘f?* ‘hoMhetaNn'SrS.strr to one t/lW I
m Kuwait was tlie wwldmfj the n fl