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Annual Report of the Arabian Mission Year 1935 RABIA No. 174 JANUARY-FEBRUARY-MARCH 1936 “BELLUMS" ON ASHAR CREEK IN FRONT OF MISSION PROPERTY Annual Report of the Arabian Mission _ for the Year 1935 E d ite d b y M r s . P a u l W . .H a r r is o n Yale Divinity Library i New Haven, Conn. i i The Arabian Mission REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA A n l 25 East 22nd Street, New York City Officers of the Board of'Foreign M issions Rev. Edward Dawson, D. D., President F. M. Potter, L. H. D., Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer Rev. L. J. Shafer, Litt. D., Associate Secretary Rev. W. J. Van Kersen, D. D., District Secretary MISSIONARIES Rev. James Cantine Stone Ridge, N. Y. Emeritus Rev. and Mrs. S. M. Zwemer Princeton, N. J. Retired Rev. and Mrs. F. J. Bamy Kuwait, via Iraq Evangelistic Work Rev. James E. Moerdyk Amarah, Iraq Evangelistic Work Rev. and Mrs. J. Van Ess Basrah, Iraq Educ. and Evan. Work Miss J. A. Scardefield 25 E. 22nd St., N. Y. C. Emeritus Miss Fanny Lutton Amarah, Iraq Emeritus Rev. and Mrs. D. Dykstra 174 W. 15th St., Holland, Mich. On Furlough Dr. and Mrs. C. S. G. Mylrea Kuwait, via Iraq Med. and Evan. Work Rev. and Mrs. G. J . Pennings Muscat, Arabia Evangelistic Work Dr. and Mrs. P. W. Harrison Muscat, Arabia Med. and Evan. Work Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Van Peursem Bahrain, Pers, Gulf Evan, and Med. Work *Mrs. Sharon J. Thoms Baghdad, Iraq Educational Work Miss Sarah L. Hosmon, M. D. Muscat, Arabia Medical Work Miss Charlotte B. Kellien Basrah, Iraq Educational Work Miss M. C. Van Pelt Kuwait, via Iraq Medical Work Dr. and Mrs. L. P. Dame Bahrain, Pers. Gulf Med. and Educ. Work Miss Ruth Jackson Basrah, Iraq Evangelistic Work Miss Rachel Jackson Basrah, Iraq Educational Work Miss Cornelia Dalenberg Amarah, Iraq Medical Work Rev. and Mrs. B. D. Hakken Bahrain, Pers. Gulf Evan, and Educ. Work Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Moerdyk Amarah, Iraq Med. and Evan. Work Dr. W. Harold Storm Bahrain, Pers. Gulf Medical Work Rev. and Mrs. George Gosselink Basrah, Iraq Evangelistic Work Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Thoms Bahrain, Pers. Gulf Med. and Evan. Work Miss Mary V. Bruins, M. D. Kuwait, via Iraq Language Study Mr. J. W. Beardslee Basrah, Iraq Educational Work Miss Esther I. Bamy, M. D., Bahrain, Pers. Gulf Medical Work Miss J ennie Bast Bahrain, Pers. Gulf Medical Work Add "Via Bombay” to address of Missionaries in Muscat. Postage to all Stations is 5 cents for first ounce, 3 cents for each additional ounce. A special air service is available for Stations in Iraq and Kuwait ensuring quicker delivery. Letters must be marked "Via Air Mail, London—Iraq" underscored in red ink. The Special Air rate is 7 cents for each half ounce in addition to above rates. The Arabian Mission which was organized in 1889 as a separate mission, was amal­ gamated with the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America in 1925. The change did not affect the work in Arabia or the organization in the field, but concerned only office administration and legal status. All former contributions should be continued and sent to the Board of Foreign Missions. They may be specially designated "For Work in Arabia" if desired. ♦Member of the United Mission in Mesopotamia, in which we cooperate with the Presbyterian Church and the Reformed Church in the United States. N e g l e c t e d A r a b i a Missionary News and Letters Published Quarterly FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION AMONG THE FRIENDS OF THE ARABIAN MISSION Annual Report of the Arabian Mission for the Year 1935 As God looks at Arabia it is a unit. The Arabs are His children who have not yet come to know Him as He is and to love Him. His heart yearns alike over the Bedou in his tent and the Pasha in his castle. But for the world Arabia is disintegrating, and even for us who are in the world but not of it the face of Arabia has changed. We see in it “econ­ omic developments,” “political divisions” and “social trends.” Muscat and Oman, lying at the extreme southern end of eastern Arabia, have as yet been untouched by the currents of world upheaval. Here old-fashioned and orthodox Mohammedanism obtains. Men pray and fast with minds undisturbed by worldly knowledge. No one travels, they are all too busy trying to eke out a meager existence. A young Sultan gladly accepts British authority. Only the few can read. No one asks any questions about the outside world. Bahrain and Kuwait are tiny, separate kingdoms. Protected by British warships they have been able to laugh at their enemies who would have swallowed them up. The British may be infidels but they >^are very useful. And now from the great West comes the likewise use- ^ ful prospector who draws oil from the depths of the sand. The Arab smiles as he sees the oil turn to gold. In his joy he forgets to pray and * fast and think of God. Thrice has Iraq celebrated its Independence Day. It is a member of the League of Nations. Iraq streets hum with the voices of school children. Men step into an airplane and visit Europe. World news is heard over wireless sets and printed in its newspapers. If the myth £ of Mohammedan greatness is gone so too is gone the myth of western £ goodness. Italy’s campaign in Africa proves that nations are ruled by <1 pride and greed. Iraq is filled with a desire for self expression and is ^ following the trail of Nationalism blazed by Turkey and Persia. In this Arabia that is so old and yet so new the Gospel of Christ is ^ being preached and lived. The past year thirty-three workers have " labored to bring the Good News—through the work of healing and the way of teaching, by the open Word and silent prayer. Out of the thirty reports submitted the following has been written in order to share with the church at home the joys and difficulties of the task. 4 NEGLECTED ARABIA Muscat-Matrah Oman is a land of barren mountains where Bedouin tribes roam. It is also a land of fertile valleys where families live in date-stick houses. Dr. Hosman has answered the call of the villages. “My desire,” she writes, “is to select by prayer some important town that will give me access to a large area of villages, then to settle in that town and live^a normal missionary life among the people. In the dispensary my plan is to present Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour and avoid all reference to their book and their Prophet. I try very earnestly to get their attention on the beauty of our Blessed Lord, on His Holiness, His purity, His love and the power of the Blood of Christ to cleanse. On Thursday afternoons when we received the women they came in numbers that filled and sometimes overflowed my hut.” On being requested by the ruler of Sohar to come and treat his wife, Dr. Hosmon left Khabura and spent a month in Sohar. There her Bible talks were listened to by Koran teachers, judges, sheikhs, mer­ chants and Bedouin. And in that same place this year three hundred Gospels have been taken by the people. This is the second year of the Knox Memorial Hospital and it has begun to draw patients from distant towns. It too has reached into the inland country. “In spite of unspeakable roads,” writes Dr. Harrison, “a weekly trip was made to Birka fifty miles west of Muscat.” A little room loaned by an Indian formed the dispensary. Homes were visited by other members of the missionary staff. A month was spent in Sur eighty miles to the south. It took four days in a sailboat to get there and as many more to return. Settled in a native house they received the sick and the needy. Women as well as men were operated upon and treated. The work was so successful that a yearly visit to Sur is planned. Everywhere poverty is the burden of the people. Children are thin and stunted by undernourishment. Women and babies die by the scores. Men are old before their time. The whole population is ravaged by malaria and eye diseases. Dr. Harrison says that never before has he seen such a large ulcer clinic. With Mrs. Harrison helping, women and children come to the morn­ ing clinic in greater numbers. This work gives her an opportunity to get acquainted with the women of Matrah. She finds them not only willing to take quinine but also ready to be friendly and hospitable. Dr. Storm is on an extended tour along the western and southern coasts of Arabia. After a busy time in Taif he has carried out a splendid project of exploration and medical work in the Yemen, Hadramaut and Dhufar. Mrs. Dykstra writes of house visitation, Bible lessons and entertain­ ing in her own home. She asks our prayers for some who have attended services regularly and have shown a desire to learn of Christ. The darkness of ignorance and fear and prejudice is great. “Somehow,” she writes, “there has been that silent, unexpressed yet stolid opposition to being influenced.” Reading lessons have been given and to each one who has learned even a little there has opened a new world of ex­ periences and it has brought food for their starved souls.
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