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The second is for the provision of harbor works at Jeddah and lighthouses
and beacons along the Arabian coast. The government is also legislating
for the improvement of education, agriculture, and public health.”
In view of such startling changes shall we not pray earnestly for the
organisation of a new mission or the opening of a ;iew center on the
great pilgrim route to Mecca? A Christian hospital at Jeddah has been
the dream of some of us even before the War began. The Bible and
Christian literature have found entrance in the Hejaz and Hadramant long

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-1 llie three founders of the Mission, taken in 188V before these two utl went out the
‘-'I first time to bruin tbelr life work for Moaleina.)
1 years since and there must be hungry hearts there too, willing to welcome
1 Christ’s messengers. According to Eldon Rutter, who wrote the last book
1 on Mecca, “every year there are normally a quarter pf a million people
J present at Arafat on the Day of the Pilgrimage.” Mecca-is the magnet that
.1 draws these hearts to a common center of fanatic hope and devotion. Can
I we look at the photograph of Mecca here reproduced and not be stirred
I with new faith and to new sacrifice for Neglected Arabia. What joy it
would be to the workers in East Arabia if a new enterprise were launched
to evangelize the west coast. “A milestone,” said a British candidate for
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Y election, in a speech that was broadcast, “A milestone is not made for
sitting on,—its chief use is to shoiv you how far you still have to go ” I* %