Page 677 - Neglected Arabia (1916-1920)

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Missionary Personalia i
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A cablegram has been received announcing the safe arrival in
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Cairo, Egypt, in late September, of Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer. ;

Rev. and Mrs. Fred J. Barny are expecting to. return to the
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Arabian. Mission at the end of this year, having fulfilled a year of
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.most acceptable service in the Arcot Mission, especially needed
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because, of the depletion of recent years in the force of that Mis­ !
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sion.
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Dr. and Mrs. C. S. G. Mylrea have been spending the hot months !
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in Kashmir, India. Dr. Mylrea has recently received recognition i
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of his services during the war from the British Government, which
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has made him an “Officer of the British Empire." i
Rev. and Mrs. Dirk Dykstra and Miss M. C. Van Pelt have also
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spent the hot season in the vale of Kashmir. !
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Rev. G. J. Pennings, who in common with many of our Mission- I
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aries has been rendering Y. M. C. A. Service with the British Army !
in Mesopotamia during the war, is still with the Army at present on i
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a punitive Afghanistan Expedition. :
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Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Van Peursem have welcomed into their I ;
home another little son;
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Miss Gertrud Schafheitiin and Dr. Sarah L. Hosmon sail for

Arabia from San Francisco on the SS. “Venezuela/ on October
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18, 1919.
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Rev. and Mrs. H. A. Bilkert have been spending the hot season
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in the hills of Southern India at KodaikanaJ.