Page 291 - Neglected Arabia Vol 1 (2)

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I’. M. POTTER
F RIENDS of the Arabian Mission are more accustomed tu seeing
my name signed to receipts than they are to seeing it heading an
article in Neglected Arabia, but I trust that this flight intru­
sion into the pages of a magazine which is accustomed u> carry
only the news fresh from the fields may be pardoned. To my friends un
the field 1 scarce need to make apology for it must be confessed that
it is their failure to send in sufficient material this time that is largely
responsible for the intrusion. Vcrbum sup. More news from the field
and I disappear again from your pagen.
Through my association with tlie financial side of the woik you may
perhaps expect from me a call for funds. 1 cannot disguise the fact
that l am a little alarmed at a falling off of receipts tor the Mission

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this year, which means a considerable deficit unless the good friends uf
the Mission rally between now and April 30th. but this magazine hat
not I teen accustomed to stress the financial side, as we believe that
knowledge of the conditions in the field is sullicient to produce the .
necessary support. This brief message, therefore, is to bring to you,
attention a few incidents of the year at the Home Base, which shed a*
interesting light on the character of our missionaries and the >uccc» of
their efforts to win men. . ltf.
Only a few years ago we opened up a station in Baghdad. Within i
year of the appearance of our missionaries on the scene Syuaus
coming to my office and turning over sums of money to U- forwarded
to their refugee friends near Baghdad, whose only address was uft<» •
“Care of the American Mission, Baghdad." It is an interesting rcrt«-