Page 3 - Protestant Missionary Activity in the Arabian Gulf

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT s
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It I am deeply endebted to all the missionaries
of the Arabian Mission of the Reformed Church in
America. (RCA) 3 _who gave so freely of their time to

share their experiences ana thoughts with me in
interviews in the Gulf shd back in the United , . .
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States, 1 also wish to thank Miss Elsie Stryker\'

Dr, John Beardsley, Dr. leRoy Englehardt and the . .
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staff of the Gardner A, Sage Library of the New
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Brunswick Theological Seminary for helping me to
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find my way around the RCA Archives and their • i
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kind loan of the photographs reproduced between
pages 3 &4, 9 & 10, 15 & 16, 21 & 22, and 49 & , 1
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50. I am also grateful to Mr. John Buteyn; for
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his kind loan of papers from the RCA records in n
New York. But most of all, my thanks goes to .
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Reverend and Mrs* Lewis R. Scudder, Jr;, who ad­ If

vised me, encouraged me, and assisted me in every
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way possible in the preparation of this thetis,’
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from its inception in Kuvra.it in 1972 to its final I
typing in New Brunswick in 1977.

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