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PERSONALIA .
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Kcv. K. 1£. Calverley, Ph.D., acting under medical advice not to
consider an immediate return to the field, has accepted temporarily an :S
invitation to assist in the department of Islamics and Arabic in the Kennedy
School of Missions at Hartford.

Dr. C. S. Ci. Mylrea, who has been invalided in Switzerland for a few
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mouths, reports definite progress and hopes lo he hack in Arabia soon after
the Annual Meeting in November.
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Miss Swanlina l)e Voting was married at Kodaikanal, South India,
on August 28th, to Rev. W. Idris Jones of the Keith Falconer Mission u( I
the United Scotch Church, located at Aden, Arabia. \ t
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Miss Cornelia Dalcnbcrg’s health did not permit her to return to the
field in September and Miss Ruth Jackson is also for the present kept at r
home by the illness of her mother.
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The Arabian contingent returning to the field this Kali consisted of
Dr. and Mrs. William J. Moerdyk and children and Rev. James E. :<
Moerdyk. They were accompanied bv Miss Catherine Akerman, a re­
inforcement for the United Mission. <
'fhe friends of Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Van Peursem, both on the licld f
and at home, were greatly grieved to learn of the sudden death of tilth | I
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oldest son, Gerrit, at Kodaikanal, August 17th.
Dr. Wells Thoms and wife, recent appointees to Arabia, are taking
medical courses preparatory to setting out for the field early next year. .

Rev. S. M. Zwemer, D.D., was on October 1st induced into the Chau
of History of Religion and Christian Missions at Princeton Theological
Seminary.
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