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or who openly oppose us and the Truth. ’ Their countrymen, who are
Mohammedans and who count it a great shame upon their nation and
upon their religion when anyone becomes a Christian, tried all sorts of
persuasion and proposed all sorts of inducements to win them back. And
the men'proved not strong enough to endure the shame o^ being a follower

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of the lowly Christ, and preferred the. ease and honor promised if they
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But we have chosen to write these brief sentences because in the home­
land we have heard people ask questions and pass remaps which seemed
to intimate that they were, or thought that many others were, discouraged:
or that they had almost lost the courage to persevere and to go forward.
It is possibly true (as some seem to have heard) that the Board of Foreign
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Missions cannot at present send out new missionary recruits. They can
only send men and women to replace missionaries who may. have fallen j
out of the ranks by death, or because of sickness, or of other disabilities. l tfp

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