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                           Thirteenth and Twenty-Eighth Days.—For the children of Arabia,
                      that those missionaries who have lost their little ones for Christ's sake,
                      and for the whole of this land, may see hundreds of Arabian children
                      brought to Him.
                           Fourteenth and Tiuetity-Ninth Days.—That the Holy Spirit may
                      work in this whole dark land, strengtheneing the little band of faith­
                      ful workers, and giving them an abundant harvest of souls.
                           Fifteenth and Thirtieth Days.—That more home helpers may be
                      raised up for Arabia, more intercession, more givers, more missiona­
                      ries. That we may claim this land by faith, resting on the words of
                      the Lord, “As for Ishmael I have heard thee." “Behold, I have blessed
                      him, and I will make him fruitful."
                           “All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered unto thee" “All they
                      from Sheba shall come."


                      Copies of this Prayer Cycle for Arabia may be obtained, price id., or 5
                           Milliemes, from Mr. A..T. Upson, Supt., Nile Mission Press,
                           Boula, Cairo, Egypt.
                      And from Mr. I. L. Oliver, Secretary, 16 Southfield Road, Tunbridge
                           Wells, E?igland.
         ♦

                                        JOHN GULIAN LANSING, D.D.

                                          BY PROF. J. PRESTON SEARLE, D.D.
                           The Rev. John Gulian Lansing, D.D., died September 3d at Den­
                       ver, Colorado, after an illness which had confined him in a hospital for
                       more than a year, and which had rooted itself in his system perhaps
                       many years earlier. “Cerebral disintegration," as the physicians called
                       it, is in itself suggestive enough, and its dreadful suggestiveness was
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                       accentuated in his case for all who watched helplessly its bewildering
                       and relentless conquest of the once devoted friend, the brilliant pro­
                       fessor, the singularly gifted and forceful preacher.
                            He was the son of the Rev. Dr. Gulian Lansing, who, though of
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                       Dutch descent, spent his life in the foreign missionary work of the
                       UnitedPresbyterian Church. He was born November 27, 1851, in
                       Damascus, in “the street which is called Straight."  His father was
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                       almost immediately transferred to the new mission in Egypt, and for
                       two score or more years was a revered leader in the great successes
          f            this mission achieved. Cairo was thus the son's real boyhood home and
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