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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MISSION

The King’s Business
v _ Mrs. Louis I*. Dame
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“Now, Then, IVc Arc Ambassadors for Christ ”
A LITTLE band of five missionaries met as the official representa­
tives of the Mission for the annual meeting in Kuwait this year.
Lack of adequate funds prevented the usual full assembly and in
the financial stringency each station selected one delegate and the
five delegates met to discuss the year’s work and to plani for the future.
The delegates felt their great responsibility in thus transacting the Mis­
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sion’s business and great care and thoroughness were given each point.
Tlie thought umir* tlmt thin milling tynilie* the reltiliim ut the work
o( the Aruhlati Mission us u whole to the Keformed Church in America • •
at lurge. The missionaries on the field are your delegates, doing the work
for which you are responsible in an unique and definite way to the King
i of Kings. Have we nil been about the King’s business as we should and
1 as He has expected of us?
i Your delegates represent you and progress or lack of progress on the
field depends much on the “instruction” from the home base. Your
interest in the work, your/prayers for its blessing and success and your
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•lifts tor its support are the tangible forces which make up the instruction.
The home base has its own command from the King—“Go ye into all the
world and preach the Gospel.” If each church member would feel that
command personally, and then remember that some one missionary on the
field is his own delegate perhaps the King’s business would be transacted
with more thoroughness and dispatch. Let us not forget that we are am­
bassadors for Christ, working in teams, the consecrated Christian at home
; and the consecrated missionary on the field, striving to do the King’s busi­
ness to the best of our several abilities.
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There is a crying need for more effective team work in this way. We
I have tried to draw attention to the shortage of funds and “cuts” which
hinder our progress and we wonder if we must retrench.. If every indi­
vidual church member felt his direct responsibility to the-King for carrying
. on His business and made his delegate realize his alertness to the situation
what a wonderful feeling it would be to the missionaries on the field!
As we review the year’s work in Arabia we find some discouragements
but also some encouragements; some dark spots and some bright spots; ;
some hopes fulfilled and others still longed-for; but above all is evident
the passionate desire that the hard-hearted Moslem must see Jesus and so
your missionaries, your delegates, have worked steadfastly to this end,
each earnestly entreating, with Paul, “Praying . . . that I may open my
: mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the Gospel, for which I am
an ambassador.”
The work has been carried on in the three departments in the usual
way following ,the example of our Lord. “And Jesus went about all the i .
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