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NEQLECTED ARABIA

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

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ARABIAN MISSION

Foreword
I X NOVEMBER, 1929, the Arabian Mission met in Bahrein fur a full
Annual meeting, at which the Board’s Deputation was present. Tu
many of us this was one of the must notable Mission meetings we
have ever attended, and the year that led up to it. one of the most
significant, in gathering up the record of last.year's work, as it is sum­
marized in the following pages, and in recalling the atmosphere of the
Bahrein meetings, one unhesitatingly affirms the key-note of this vear of
joy and sorrow to be ’’Fellowship.”
( The whole Mission was drawn together more closely than ever before
in the bonds of a common sorrow. Our grief at the sudden tragic death
v iif a well-loved friend and colleague made us as one, and our best heritage
:• from Henry Bilkert is that friendliness, of which his whole life and char-
: acier was such a vital and abounding embodiment.
I Exigencies of our work have caused a certain amount of shifting of
jK-rsonnel between stations, which has enhanced our sense of fellowship in
* the work. DilTerent departments of mission work have eoiiliuualB tesli-
. fied. in their reports, of their indebtedness to each other. Medical work
gives evangelistic missionaries their opportunity for new contacts, in the
station and in louring. Evangelistic workers help the medical departments
by preaching in the hospitals, and co-operate with the staff of the schools
, iu teaching. Medical workers teach and demonstrate Child Welfare in
the Schools. Station work has been helped bv touring, and the reverse is
aEo true.
The ties which bind Woman’s work to the Woman's Board have been
made tangible to us iu the beautiful new plant and equipment of one of
our Cirls’ schools. This, coming only a few years after the completion
of a line hospital for women and children in another station, makes us feel
that we are expressing visibly our intention and ability to help the women
of Islam in practical ways.
It was a lilting climax that this year should have ended with the fellow- t
j ship of the Hoard's Deputation visiting us in our stations and meeting with i
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