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Our photograph shows such a doorway, and also gives a
group of typical Arabs at Makallah一the Bedouin, the townsman,
and the slave. Would to God that some one would see that here
is an open door for the Gospel as well!
Ever since Mohammed's successors blotted out the dying
Christianity of Nejran and Yemen and Socotra this 4, valley of
death” has never heard ihe message of life. In Sanaa, the

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cathedral of Abraha, built in 567 a. d., is now used for a Turkish 1
• cavalry stable. In Hadramaut there are inscriptions that tell of
a Christ who is known 110 longer. In Socotra, on the hill Ditrerre,
of the Haraar range, (‘a perfect mass of crosses of every pos—
sible shape is carved, perhaps to mark a (Christian burial—ground•串
Alai ! ttow neither the hill tribes of Yemcrtt nor the people of Socotra,
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*6cc ihc appendix of Bcrtt’s *• Southern Arabia.