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- Missionary News and Letters /
Published Quarterly
FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION AMONG THE FRIENDS OF
THE ARABIAN MISSION

Report of the Brummana Meeting of the Council for
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Western Asia and Northern Africa i
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Mrs. E. E; Calvekley
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F Arabia and Mesopotamia to the Bi-annual meeting of the Literature ?. 1
ROM April 15-19. it was my privilege to be the delegate from
Committee (April 15, 16, 17) and of the General Council for
Western Asia and Northern Africa (April 18, 19). It was indeed ! •
i great joy to be a member of such a gathering and to enjoy fellowship
*ith so many workers whose names are well known to those who are in­
terested in Missions to Moslems. The place of the meeting was Brum- i
mana, a beautiful spot in the Lebanon Mountains of Syria, within sight of
Beirut. The fragrance of pine, eucalyptus, and many flowers made the ■ • !
jJace seem like Paradise to those who had come from desert stations. In
a small hotel in Brummana the men and women delegates from far scat­
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tered mission fields spent many hours around the long table discussing and
planning for work in Moslem lands, The first two full days (if,the meet-
iiijj* itiueilttT with the wmiing u( the lSilt were devilled tu ll\c program I
0( the Literature Committee under the leadership of its very able secretary,
Hiss Constance Padwick, an English woman with rare qualification for
her position. The Chairman of the meeting was Mr. Greenslade of the
i'rcsbyterian Mission in Beirut. On the 18th and 19th, Mr. Nicol of the \
Presbyterian Mission in Beirut, acted as Chairman, seated, at'^the head ol
ihc table beside Dr. Robert Wilder, the Executive Secretary of the Coun­ ? , !
cil. There was a devotional meeting to open each session, morning and
dternoon, and one person was appointed to sum up the discussion of each
,cssion and present it to the Throne of Grace before adjourning. Each i !
evening also was devoted to a meeting for devotion.
There have been other bi-annual meetings of the Council for Western
Ksia and Northern Africa, the last of which was at Helcfuan, Egypt, but ; !
ibis was the first one to take place since the appointment of Dr. Wilder as 1
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Secretary of the Council. His three-year term of service was just half
*er at the time of the Brummana meetings and there were many ex­ ;
pressions of appreciation of the service he is rendering. Perhaps there ;
9 no other one person who could so surely hold the confidence of all kinds i ft
missionaries and encourage the unity of the various and widely differing . i: • •
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