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Another Milestone

M ANY are the earnest Christian workers who have given them­
selves up to the work of Christ’s Kingdom. Some of them
have either left the field of their labors, or succumbed to disease
and gone to their reward. Others are those who can boast of
passing many a milestone, laboring year after year for Christ’s Kingdom. ;
Often their road is rough and the going difficult. The Moslem work in
Arabia and Mesopotamia cannot boast of paved roads for its workers,
neither can it boast of fast progress in attaining its goal, but it is fortunate
in having a group of workers who work steadily and faithfully, using
their opportunities to testify to Christ, and trying their best to overcome
the difficulties of the way. We rejoice that one of our number has
passed his twenty-fifth milestone and can boast of so many years of. ■
faithful and diligent service in the fields of Islam. We refer to Rev.
James E. Moerdyk, who has just completed a quarter of a century in

THE TOMB OF THE l»ROl»HET AT MEDINA

Christ’s service in Arabia and Mesopotamia. His faithfulness and hi*
earnest consecration to his work is witnessed to by all who have \vorkc4
with him, and we rejoice with him that he has been found worthy to
bear the burden of this work for so many years.
Our stations, Muscat, Bahrain, Kuwait, Basrah, and Amarah, with
their sandy deserts, their garden lined rivers, their intense heat wave*,
and their ignorant and fanatical inhabitants who have chosen the icligu*
of the Prophet Mohammed, are manned by a crew ot workeih who icd
the discouragement of an uphill work, but who remember the prumi*
of the Master that His Word will not return unto lum void. \Vuul4
that we could increase our forces, extend our work, broaden our Iid4
of labor, and increase the number of our converts. \ut 'V* lrUhl ^4
pray, and work away, leaving Cod to give the increase m 1 is own tin*,

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