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lia,l///!sXWr'has been through deep waters having suffered by death.
and property loss by fire but Mr. Van Peursem is able to wrue.
•Tl! • brisfht spot in the Oman held has been the opening of the country
|L- motor car. On December 26th the road to lMutrah was officially
11 U .(1 by the Sultan. There were then five cars in Muscat and Mutrah.
\Present there are twenty. Ten of these are doing a rushing business
,: J ,n Muscat and Mutrah as taxis. It is now possible to go some two
' ulred miles by car. What has been done in one year is Imt an earnest
Twhat will be done in the motor line in the next five years. We made
* r first tour by car in April. In company with Dr. Harrison we took
4Kurd as far as sixty miles straight west of Muscat. From here we went
! camei another forty miles into Rostak. We had only a short visit
! the town but it opened again the old friendships of twenty years ago.
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Hie sheikh and his sons as well as the people were very friendly. This
n'er gave the doctor to understand that a letter from him would admit
i into his city any time. As usual on these trips, the doctor was rushed
dill patients. The great objection was that we left too soon. During my
Wnce on tour and in India, the Church services were conducted by the
Jjmrteur and Merash. The latter is the convert on whom Miss Lullon
spent much time and prayer and who has been critically ill for some
\x. lie keeps his faith and is more than resigned to whatever God has
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i Mure fur him.” Two conferences and a meeting were led in three dif-
criut places in India, the subject being, “The Presentation of C hristianity I •
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i Moslems.” The fact that our missionary hailed from the cradle of Islam
faced him in a unique position with the Moslems in that sister land.
KUWAIT also is making progressive steps toward lettering the town's •.
nidiliuii: A desert patrol of four trucks mounted with machine guns has
aii >larted, streets have been widened, houses and shops numbered, taxes
iicd and a new policing and watchman system begin The ruler received
i* honor of being made a Knight Commander of the Indian Kmpirc, this
tug announced at the annual dinner given on the birthday of His Majesty,
ng George. But coupled with these improvements and honors is the
I fact that the city is going from had to worse, economically, due largely
the |HJor |>earl catch and market. Mr. De Jong writes of the men’s work,
tc have continued our Arabic services in the heart of the town on Sun-
» afternoons and they remain our finest public endeavors to proclaim
Gospel, lhe record audiences were those at Xmas time, one day
re hang 96 men and boys assembled and some women. On the whole
assembled groups have been more patient and have not trafficked in and
*! ,,Ul,ch as of y°re*nor have they made so much disturbance at the door. l
|S,"!n‘L!!10rnngS^fihaV,C Sunda-V Schoul and a short Church service
* Ti,on °Ur Blble,shoP continues to function faithfully in the
i-,1- Thn!?getatten( ance there for the year has been from'2U to 30
’ !hiierS^. tWh°, Ca,,le !‘l can be ‘JtvWcd into three groups: (1)
Yl,„se wh0 wi [Cac and looking through our papers and magazines:
. (\) Those u.h° e<blcatu>nal books and some who buy religious !
* ’ S< "h" 0,nw •» rl‘ad the I'.ihlc, the (iospels. our religions