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the Scriptures) in peace away from the prying eyes and suspicious
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glances of their own households. As education increases the number
of readers, the press is becoming a power in this country, and we ought
: to make more use of it for the spread of Christian literature. Our
chief sources of supply are the mission presses in Cairo and Beirut,
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and if God gives the means, we should like to have a reading-room
and lending library, as the shop is too small to accommodate many
i visitors. Formerly we dared not distribute tracts openly, but with
the new regime in Turkey things are changed, and there is now no
hindrance to the diffusion of Christian literature. Pray for the work-

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MOSLEM SCHOOLGIRLS, MOSUL.

ers who distribute and for those who read. May God bless the seed
sown, that it may bring forth fruit an hundredfold.
The medical mission is unfortunately closed owing to the absence
of any English doctor. The boys' school also needs to be strongly
1 reinforced, and the present primary school not only enlarged, but a
high school also opened. As all classes are now seeking education,
an opportunity is offered which may never occur again, as if we fail
to open good Christian schools, their place is sure to be taken by those
of an anti-Christian tendency.
The girls' school numbers a hundred and fifty to two hundred
pupils, of whom one-third are Moslems. It is well up to the present
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