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NEGLECTED ARABIA

Missionary News and Letters
Published Quarterly
FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION AMONG THE FRIENDS OF
THE ARABIAN MISSION

Naeema

Mrs. D. Dykstka
HAT l do lliou knuwest nut now 1ml thou shult know here­
after.” So llic Lurd has spoken to us in the last days.
Three times in the past two years the Lord has come into
our midst and taken unto Himself one of His children who
has received the gift of faith and who had been born anew into His
kingdom.
In August, 1923, it was a man in his prime who had for several years
been a secret follower and who during the last
)car of his life made rapid progress in dis-
cipleship and in courage to confess his Lord. And
then the Lord took him away after an illness of
i few hours of cholera. Again, in February,
1924, the Lord came very unexpectedly, and
look home another con­ vert. She had been bap-
ned on December 23rd, and we rejoiced with
her and because of her very evident growth in
jrace. And then she left us, translated and taken
borne to glory, in a moment of time, and is
jerving the Lord in heaven above. Today,
December 19th, we have said farewell to another
NAEEMA
Wother and friend. This time it was Naeema, a
Ud of about seventeen. He came to us as our sweeper when we came to
Amarah. From the beginning he showed a spirit of interest, of friendli-
oc*s and sincerity. The first summer he seemed to be in normal condi-
oon. But in the fall he came down with what we then learned was an
old trouble. At the head of the government hospital was an English
doctor who diagnosed his disease as tuberculosis of the bone. Three
doctors made the same diagnosis. All agreed that with care and good
feeding he might still outgrow his trouble but that his condition would
«l»aya give cause fur uuxidy. At that time Naeema was in the hospital \
for several months. His life hung in the balance until summer time of
ike year following and then he began to improve. Being unable to labor
«c began giving him lessons and this was the beginning of his spiritual
feuons as well. Again in the fall of 1923 he had a spell of weakness but
allied after the winter had passed and the same thing happened last
jtar and the past spring. Each time the recurrence of his weakness
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