Page 224 - Neglected Arabia 1906-1910 (Vol-1)

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AX ALCOYli IN GOD'S HALL OU FAME.

Iu 11 lose pictures friends of Arabia and the Arabian Mission can
sec the faces of some of the men who bear the heat and burden of
the day and upon whom falls the brunt of direct conflict.

Ili.ias [J.\koos

is a slioc-makcr by trade, of Jacobite
father and Catholic mother. He was
!S densely ignorant when Mr. CanLiue
■ first discovered liim cobbling in the

bazaar. But he had qualities wliich
could not be mistaken, and now, after
nine years of service, he has reached
the rank of highest grade colporteur.
A Bedoui among Bedouin, an effendi
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among cffenclis, at home alike among
pearl-divers, camel-hercls and pashas,
and speaking four languages fluently,
he is a fair sample of the native work-
ers to whom the Reformed Church
owes much for efficient service at the
front.

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Aui) liL KliKIM ESUO

(l boasts, and rightly, that his family was
the first to enlist under the Evangelical
banner when the American Board mis­
sionaries first raised it in Eastern Tur­
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key. He has tlie distinction of having
tamed a refractory director of Turkish
education. And that speaks volumes

for his tact and dialectical skill, as
well as his Christian forcbearancc. He
is colporteur in Busrah field.

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