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Us at unr animal meeting, Their sympathetic interest in our problems,
their keen and discriminating attention as we analyzed our tad%. re valued :
unr methods, and laeed the future ui* unr wurk. their hearienine. assurance
that the Board and lhe C hurch stand heliind us. gave ib all new murage *
and liujie. ]
"(iud is laitht nl. through Whom ye were called into the fellowship of j
Mis Sun Jesus C hrist uur laird. Fur the word of the cross is to them that ;
perish foolishness, hut unto Us who are saved it is the power oi < it It I.

EVANGELISTIC WORK i
i
The Ministry of Preaching

"IVuc is me if l preach not the Cos pel.”
lSCAT." writes Mr. Van I'eursem, ’‘although by no means a i
busy center of trade, is at present not diminishing in importance. 5
M The lulls, ’rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,’ are laid lu\v by the jj
instrument of the road-builder, so that motor cars will soon pass ‘f
over them from Muscat to Mutrah, and farther inland. Well drilling has ?
begun. The place is being modernized, and Bahrein is her example. A i
building has been rented for the Royal Air Force. Their planes expect to ?.
visit Muscat more frequently in the future, much as the cruisers have...
done." From the mission point of view, this improvement of trau>porta- .
lion facilities, coming at a lime when mir medical work lia^ hem reopened,;
and the clergyman has the opportunity of touring with the doctor, seems ’ ’
like a chance to enlarge greatly our scope of contacts in < Jinan. To
(jtioie further from Mr. Van IVursem’s report: "Most o| the near-by;
villages were visited and lantern-slide pictures shown to the people. Six *
weeks were given to louring the Batina country in coni]kuiv with l)r.
Harrison. Words cannot express the value of the combined tour of the*
padre and the doctor. As in the year before, Sohar was made our first •
center of work. Every second evening was reserved for lantern slides.
As this became more widely known, larger crowds came to see them. It.
brought an average group of a hundred men and boys every evening..
This method, in addition to its effectiveness in presenting simple truth, is
excellent in bringing the missionary and the people close together. Three
weeks were spent in the towns between Sohar and Muscat. As much time'
was given to each as seemed feasible. In A1 Musana. however, the throng
of people coming for medical care was so large that it was decided to
remain for fifteen days. In every place the pictures were shown. No
less than two thousand men anil boys during this trip beheld the picture
ol Christ on the cross’ and received its message. Men will soon forget
what was said then, but that picture once painted on men’s minds will not;
he obliterated. The future of the Oman held 1 think lies in the hundreds
of villages to the northwest and southeast of Muscat. People are poor, •
illiterate, sorely in need of medical attention, but exceedingly friendly.*
The more these villages are visited, the better chance there will he for an