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Basrah seems to be headquarters for poor people from surrounding
districts who come there in search of work and money. Weekly service*
are held in some of these villages, eye medicines dispensed, and children
invited lo Sunday School services. Visiting the better classes of women
with Bible reading and prayer is done both by the missionaries and the
Bible women. Zuhra, the mission servant, seems to do a great work in
assisting the missionaries, visiting the poor, inviting people to service*,
and o He ring her home for Christian services, and she is faithful In
taking regular lessons from the Bible, but she is still unwilling to make V
the break with Islam and openly confess her Master.
Basrah and Ashar Girls1 Schools report an enrollment of 41 pupiU
in the Basrah school 60 per cent. Moslems, and 63 pupils in the Ashar

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school 55 per cent Moslems. Competition with the government Kind,
is intense at present, but many are far-seeing enough to see the superiority
of the mission school over all others. Miss Kell.en plans U. lake the
Basrah school during the coming year and Miss Kachel •lOcsou lb«
Ashar school. Bible study is strictly entorced and we hope that throu^
it some seeds will be sown and bring torth fruit, l-our pupils we*
given diplomas during the past year, three of whom are using it**
education in the teaching of others. ., .
The ladies in Basrah are pleased with the 30,000 dollar gilt from iW
Jubilee fund and are at present looking for a suitable piece ut property
on which to build a much needed boarding school and a residence

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