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- Missionary News and Letters / .
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Published Quarterly
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FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION AMONG THE FRIENDS OF
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THE ARABIAN MISSION
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Report of the Brummana Meeting of the Council for

Western Asia and Northern Africa
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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
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Western Asia and Northern Africa (April 18, 19). It was indeed 1 ‘
i great joy to be a member of such a gathering and to enjoy fellowship
vith so many workers whose names are well known to those who are in­ k
terested in Missions to Moslems. The place of the meeting was Brum-
mana, a beautiful spot in the Lebanon Mountains of Syria, within sight of !
Beirut. The fragrance of pine, eucalyptus, and many flowers made the
place seem like Paradise to those who had come from desert stations. In
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a small hotel in Brummana the men and women delegates from far scat­ i
tered mission fields spent many hours around the long table discussing and i
planning for work in Moslem lands, The first two full days of,the meet- ■ } %
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L* wilier wlllillie wiling uf the 15th were devoted tu the prugram I
A! die Literature Committee under the leadership of its very able secretary, : \
gjss Constance Padwick, an English woman with rare qualification for 1 •
kr position. The Chairman of the meeting was Mr. Greenslade of the r
I'resbyterian Mission in Beirut. On the 18th and 19th, Mr. Nicol of th< ••! ) t
1‘resbyterian Mission in Beirut, acted as Chairman, seated, af'the head oi
i)g table beside Dr. Robert Wilder, the Executive Secretary of the Coun- i i «
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al. There was a devotional meeting to open each session, morning and .*
dternoon, and one person was appointed to sum up the discussion of each
gsion and present it to the Throne of Grace before adjourning. Each l
veiling 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 Helouan, Egypt, but \
iis was the first one to take place since the api>ointnient of Dr. Wilder as ; 1
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 .. !
a no other one person who could so surely hold the confidence of all kinds : I
J missionaries and encourage jhe unity of the various and widely differing i
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