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"UUDWA" OR NATIVE CIRCUS STAGED FOR THE MISSION MEETING
AT KUWAIT

docs not find among us at present; it will provide also a center of infor­
mal evangelistic work, with stereopticon, lecture, library, reading and "
club room facilities. Some, but not all, of these activities are carried qq
at present with our inadequate accommodations, but they will flouruh :<
when our new building is provided. It will be a building in daily uk, *
performing a constant service in the evangelization of Kuwait. It will j
be a worthy work of the Reformed Church in its new century of worship ;
of God and service of man.
Another need of Kuwait station is a home for the single ladies who art ;
needed to take advantage of the medical and evangelistic opportunism
among the women of Kuwait. A comfortable home under the permano*
control of the Mission should be provided by our small but noble Church* ;
A rented house, built with Arab ideas of what will do, offers little co» %
eouragement to add those conveniences that make a house a home worthy
of the ladies who give themselves to the service of their Lord and of tht
Church they represent.
Such a home for the unmarried ladies of our Mission will be an cfe 1
■ Mirnl irMimnny lo (hr Arnlm (lull llu* Christian system of life duel on J
make it necessary for a woman to be married in order to be supported.;'
Arabia needs to know that women should be free to express their per* ’
sonalities in independent careers if they so desire and the careen c4 t
service which our single ladies have chosen plead for the freedom
women in the most attractive, convincing and ennobling manner. I
A third need of Kuwait which the Tercentenary celebration may i» 1
spire the Reformed Church to provide is a school building. At proem 1
the Mission has two small rooms of a rented building which also accom* ■
modates a colporteur’s family and provides a place for our Sunday a/u»* .;
noon evangelistic service for Moslems. The Mission is certainly 9
its money’s worth in renting that building. But the school has outgro«t 9
its rooms. Something will have to be done if we are to take advaai^i 9

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