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Personalia

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The following members of the Arabian Mission are expecting to
return to this country on their furloughs in the Spring of 1922:
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Rev. and Mrs. James Cantine, D.D.
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Dr. and Mrs. Paul VV. Harrison
Rev. and Mrs. E. E. Calverley
Miss Jennie A. Scardefield. ^

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Dr. Paul Harrison has been elected a Fellow of the American College
of Surgeons. This is an exceptional honor since he has been elected,..
without the usual examination. This is a further evidence of lhe’fuctr-’i
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that high professional service cannot be hidden though it be rendered '.jl
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in the deserts of Arabia.

Miss Jennie A. Scardefield has been spending several months at the;-i
Union Mission Sanatorium at Madanapalle, undergoing a/ successful
operation while there.

Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer has returned to Cairo, having resumed his
classes in the Theological Seminary and his usual services in that dis­

turbed center of the Moslem World. He reports that, notwithstanding
certain political disappointments, Egypt seems to be quiet and under ’
complete control of the Government.

Rev. and Mrs. Dirk Dykstra sailed from New York on their return
to Arabia on December 15th. They will make Amara on the Tigris
River the center of their evangelistic work.

Rev. and Mrs. H. A. Bilkert welcomed into their home on October
11th, a little son whose name is to be Monteith Richard.

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