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Amarah and the Tercentenary
Rev. James E. Moekdyk
G OD has done great things for our Church in the past. He has
graciously used our Church in the United States and in many
places in the foreign held. But l often ponder and wonder what
might have been if we had placed ourselves wholly at His service,
ami what may very certainly be done in the future if we are willing that
He command us and all we possess. Why not be bold “to chart our
future" as well as “to picture our past." I am writing very briefly for
only Amarah Station and its immediate held—which held, I pray, the
Church will not refuse as its very own.
The Lansing Memorial Hospital was built quite a number of years ago
in Basrah, and with Dr. Bennett and Mrs. Bennett, M.D., and after them
with Dr. Van Vlack a large and well known medical and surgical work

NEW LANSING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. AMARAH

wit carried on with patients coming from all the country round about as
«cQ as from within the city. Then the war came on and*'for several
years the Mission was compelled to close the hospital. Now the building
fcu been sold to our Boys’ School in Basrah and the Lansing Memorial
llotpital has been rebuilt in Amarah, where the work has already become
pupular, exerting an influence both in the immediate vicinity and in many
yam of Mesopotamia. The people like to bring their sick to the mis­
eries because they receive such efficient and Christian treatment. The
Mixtion must not disappoint this people and must use this opportunity to
king them the Gospel for their sick souls. To do this the Women’s
Ho»|>iul must be completed and a lady physician must be installed, and in
*dcr to visit the larger field a second doctor should be added to share
*c hard labor in the station and on tours. Here is a field that has long
m k<n claimed by the medical missionary but has never yet been harvested
a' Amaral' \m not thus fur Iim1 uny cdurntumol work, Hut might we nut
H pt till* method ttl#u to bring tile tiuspei to the youth of the place?

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