THE LATE MISS DAY OF CHERCHELL, ALGERIA. See page .6.

No. .56.-Ne-w Series. January-'. 1910. NORTH AFRICA The Monthly Record of the North Africa Mission.

"'Dien said Jesus, .•.. as my Father hat/, sent Me, eben so send I you. " -JOHN xx. 21.

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PAGE Paul'e Parting Charge Notes and Extracte A The Late Mies Day of Cherchell, Algeria 6 At Reet 8 News from the Mission Field- From Mr. E, E. Short (H.airouan) 11 From Dr. Churcher (Sfax) 11 Some Account of Recent W orh. done in the Tulloch Memorial Hoepital at Tangier 12 The H.ab:,rlee of Algeria 15 To the Members of the Prayer and Worh.ers' Union

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Paul's Parting Oharge. "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Chn"st, who shall judge the quick and the dead at HisajJpean·ngand His Kingdom; preach the l,l/ord.''-2 TIM. iv. r, 2. HERE ever attaches to a parting message a special interest, and Paul's last letter to Timothy, and through him to us, has weight as well as T interest for these last and difficult times. Paul was probably confined in a Roman dungeon, dark and damp, and he perhaps dictated this letter to Luke the beloved physician. He who had been called " a young man whose name was Saul," when participating in the martyrdom of Stephen, was now such an one as " Paul the aged." Between thirty and forty years of missionary labours and trials had left their marks upon him in a variety of ways. His grey hairs, his failing sight and failing strength, indicated that, even if Nero spared his' life, it would not be long before he would depart and be with Christ, which for him would be far better. He who had laboured for others with a love that had been kindled by the one of whom he said," I know Him whom I have trusted," found himself in his old age almost friendless and in prison. He says, "All the Christians in Roman 'Asia have deserted me" (eh. i. I 5), and "at my first defence I had no one at my. side, but all deserted me. May it not be laid to their charge" (eh. iv. 16). Just as Tyndal wrote from the damp cell of his prison at Vilvorde in Belgium, in the winter before his death, asking for something to patch his leggings, for a woollen. shirt, a warmer cap, and, above all, for his Hebrew Bible, grammar, and dictionary, so Paul asks for his cloak which he left at Troas and the books, but specially the parchments. 2 NO'J{TH A'F~1CA. [January, 19to. , But beside his personal trials, the outlook in the churches that: he loved, and: for whom he had spent himself in loving service, was most depressmg. Already, evenduring the lifetime of the apostles, apostasy. was beginning. ·l ~he for,m of godliness was ·takin:g the place ot reality and power (eh. iii. 5), and ·agn?sticism was rearing its head among men of the Jannes and J ambr:es_type. The time was coming when profrssed Christians would not endure sound teaching, but would choose those_whose instruction would suit their perverted minds. They would at last turn away their ears. from the truth and give ,heed·to fables. This WEngland a:t the beginning of the eighteenth century spiritual ·life had ebbed to low tide. Again God came in, and Wesley, Whitefield, and others were raised up. · At the present time the churches are suffering Jrom doctrinal and spiritual debility, and amongst loyal followers of the rejected Christ there is deep concern; not unmingled with depression. The future looks gloomy, though. the gloom is lightened by the hope of the Second Advent of Christ. · Foreign missions, which were and are still making encouraging progress, are hampered by the pressing need of suitable labourers and sufficient means. Must there be retrenchment and retreat, or can fresh advances be· made ? Perhaps Paul's message to Timothy in a time of grave·anxiety and perplexity :may throw light on the path to-day. What were some of the thoughts that Paul brought to the notice of ,Timothy to encourage this godly, but somewhat timid 1eader? · He reminded him of the faith of his mother and grandmother, as though he would put him on his mettle to maintain the family character for faith and sincerity. He also reminded his dearly loved fellow-worker of his own manner of life, teaching, purpose; faith, patience, etc. He told him how he had fought a . good fight, and finished his course, and kept the faith. Notwithstanding his dismal dungeon, he speaks with holy ecstasy of the crown of righteousness which the Lo!d, the righteous Judge, would give to him, and to all those that love His appearing. May not we, as we remember the saints and servants of the Lord who have preceded us, their faith and fervour, their love and loyalty, their self-sacrifice and service, be encouraged to follow their example of faith, and hope to the end ? Jesus Christ is the same for us as for them. Let us but trust Him as they trusted Him, and we, Hke them, shall conquer either by doing or suffering. · January·• , 1910.] N _O~TH AFJ{lCA. 3 . Then he reminded Timothy that God had not given the spirit of fear or cowardice, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. , Therefore he was not to be. ashamed, either of the Gospel, the testimony of the · Lord, or his poor despised and imprisoned delegate. He exhorts Timothy and us also to boldly participate in the afflictfons which those who preach and live out the Gospel must expect; but reminds him that, though personally he might feel weak and incompetent,_ yet with t~e ;Holy Spirit dwelling in him as the spirit of_ power, love, and sound 3udgment, timid though he naturally might be, he need not fear. Then Paul reminds his son in the faith of the grace· that is in Christ Jesus which was at his c!isposal, and exhorts him to be strong through drawing upon its fulness in his character of a soldier of Jesus Christ and a servant of the Lord. The inspired Holy Scriptures · were to be his cont.inual study, and in them he woµld find an inexhaustible storehouse and - an unfailing armoury in days of spiritual famine and increasing conflict. In this and in other ways, did the imprisoned apostle encourage his younger companion in a dark time. Paul might soon be taken from him, but Paul's God would remain. The spirit of power would still be with him. The grace of the Lord Jesus would abide, and, if he .lacked Paul's words of v.;-ise counsel, he would still have the Holy Scriptures to be a lamp to his feet and a light to his path. And are not these the same for God's servants now? We have our Heavenly Father with His infinite love, the Lord Jesus with His boundless grace and com­ passion, the Holy. Spirit with His power and wisdom, and the Holy Scriptures with their light and strength. Let us then take courage and press forward, though Christian leaders and generous donors are called home, and though the darkness thickens as we go. But what was Timothy to do in view of this gracious provision for his weak­ ness and lack of wisdom ? Just to press forward with the great commission .of preaching the Gospel and building up the Church. The promise of life was to be told out everywhere. Sin involved death, law demanded death. Christ by death had purchased life, and promised it as the gift , of God to all those who wouid receive Him. Timothy was not to be ashamed of this testimony, but to go on declaring the glorious glad tidings. He must remember the fact that the Christ who died was raised from the dead, and was now alive at the right hand of God, and from that exalted throne was sitting o'er the water floods of earth and ordering all things for His people's -development through trial to their final conformity to His likeness. In his preaching of the Word, Timothy was to remember that Christ was coming again to reward His servants and establish His millennial and eternal Kingdom. In short, he was to pr~'ach the Word of God, and thus preach Christ-Christ, ·-the sin-bearer, through whom the dead obtain life ; Christ, the living Lord and undying helper of His :geople; Christ, the returning Saviour, who is to deliver from the presence of sin, as He has delivered from its curse, and is delivering from its present l;)ower. . Is not this our work for the New Year ? Encompass~d with difficulties and conscious of failure and infirmity in ourselves, let . us remember our. infinite resources in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit a_nd their inspired Word, and .go forward, at home and abroad, in the work God has given us to do, declaring on ,every hand Christ's ability and willingness to save, to keep, and theri to glorify those .who put their trust in Him. E. H. G.

The certainty that Jesus knows and feels all that we endure is one of the dainties witl,l -which afflicted souls are comforted.-C. H. Spurgeon. NO'R..TH AF'J{TC-!f. [Janua;r, 1910. Notes and Extracts.

HOME NOTES. Mrs. Wilson, though not strong, was still helping her husband with dispensing, nur­ The :Monthly Prayer :Meeting sing, and all the work of the hospital, but, will (D.V.) be held at 4, Highbury Crescent, after her severe and long-continued fever, it N., · on the first Thursday · of the month was judged wiser that she . should have a Oanuary 6th), at 4 p.m. Tea at 3.30. A short rest in England. As Dr. Wilson also hearty invitation is given to all friends of the himself needed a change, it has been found work who are able to attend. necessary to close the Tulloch Memorial Hos­ pital at Tangier for a short time, but Mrs. Wilson hopes to be strong enough. to go back _ A Frayer :Meeting for the North Africa to Tangier in Februar:r. .., Mission 1s also held (D.V.) on the third Friday in every month, at " St. David's," + Aldersbrook Road, Manor Park, E., from 3 »·EPUTATION WORK. to 4 p.m. Tea provided. Frequent trains :Mr. A. V. Liley is •still busily engaged in ruh from Liverpool Str,eet and Fenchurch Deputation work, holding drawing-room and Street to Manor Park. The next meeting other meetings all over the country to make will (D.V.) be on Friday, January 21st, at known the spiritual needs of the people of 3 p.m. Tunisia. '.fhe beautiful, colom1ed slides which he exhibits to illustrate his subject have been much appreciated during his recent vi·sit. to BIRTHS. Scotland. To Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lochhead, at . Mr. Liley has already booked engage1nents Constantine, on November 12th, 1909, a which will keep him fully occupied until the · daughter. spring. During the month of January he To :Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bolton, at Tripoli, hopes to lecture as follows :- on November . 16th, 1909, a daughter. January 2-At Crusaders' Bible Class, Stroud Green, N. · 4- ,, St. George's H all, ,vimble- + don. ' NEW MAP OF NORTH AFRICA. 5- ,, Gospel H all, Chelmsford. We should like to call our readers' attention 6-,, Basing Place Mission, Shore- fo the new Map of North Africa which ditch. ' appeared for the first time on the cover of the 8-- ,, Islington Medical Mission. December issue. 10-- ,, Y.M.C.A., Aldersgate Street. 11- ,, Baptist Church, Banstead. + 12- ,, Baptist Church, Purley. "WANTS." 13- ,, Baptist Church, High Road, Mrs. J. J. Cookse7 is in need of a supply . i lford. · of flannelette and calico for her work at Susa. 17- ,, Alexandra H all, Blackheath. She will be very grateful if friends will help 18- ,, Grove Road Mission, South her · in this matter. The women's classes ,voodford. have doubled since her return, and the 19- ,,· Markham Square Congrega­ numbers in the girls' classes have consider­ tional Church, Chelsea. ably increased, so that she is in urgent need 2c- ,, Baptist Church, Palmer's of more material. Green. 24- ,, Alexandra Sunday School, Penge. ·»r. · and Mrs. Wilson are home from 25- ,, Worcester. Tangier for a short visit, and have been 26- ,, Buxton. spending December in the Isle of Wight. ,, 28-31- ,, Macclesfield.

There is not a single promise in God's mercy-follow the track and find Him.· The Word which, if followed up, will not lead thee promises are cards of admission not only to the throne, the mercy-seat, and the audience­ to.the Lord. The sure words of Scripture are chamber, but to the very heart of Jesus.­ the footsteps of Jesus imprinted on the soil of C. H. Spurgeon. Ja.ib.uary, 1910.] NO'l{TH .JIFR_TC.11. 5

Mr. A. J. Moore, B.A., wrote early in FOREIGN NOTES. · November of the excellent progress of the building of the New Spanish Mission Hall, Morocco; Tangier. He had been for a fortnight laid -. Mrs. 0. E. Simpson writes from · Casa­ aside, but had been able to arrange for · the blanca on Novemlfer 6th :-" To-day .we had continuance both of the preaching services 130 patients who paid great attention to and of the building operations without any the words. spoken. A backslider came back interruption. to-day in very poor health, literally ' prayed On December 2nd Mr. Moore wrote back' to us, and we trust to Christ. We further that the new building was practically had our neighbours in with us last night finished, save for a few minor details still for the purpose of reading the Gospel. One needing attention. He begged that friends of them is most interested in the New Testa­ at home would pray much for the special ment, and is hearing for the first time what Gospel services to be held in the new hall his so-called prophet really was, and that the every night from Sunday, December 12th, for Koran is not the Word of God. After a native a whole month, the first fortnight to be taken roeal we sang Gospel hymns. I knew that by Mr. Archibald Bell of A1geciras, Spain, the words ' Jesus my Lord ' would be a hard and the second fortnight by our kind friend, saying to the Moslem heart. We have been Mr. A, Blanco, whose sympathy and help p·raying for him for some ·time that the have often proved so valuable. Miss Brown Holy Spirit might do that work which is also writes, asking prayer that the preachers His alone, a-nd might open his heart to the ·may he greatly used of God, and that many truth. hearts may be touched by the Holy Spirit and won for our Lord Jesus Christ. " Last month we had 700 patients, not counting the women who now go to Miss Banks a nd Dr. W.; and still fresh doors are + opening. How often in these days do we Algeria. -have to say, 'We do not seek to win your Mr. A. Shorey writes from Algiers on love and esteem, precious though these must November 13th :-" Miss Trotter . and Miss ever be; but it is our prayer and aim that Haworth arranged for a ' two days' waiting your hearts should be opened to the on God ' at El Biar about the middle of Saviour.' " October. Most of the missionaries from Algiers were present as well a_s a Danish + pastor and _his wife. The .pastor gave some Miss S. Jennings, who left for her station good, helpful addresses in English, ·and we at Laraish on November 9th, writes from felt that these days of prayer at the com­ Tangier under date November 16th :-" We mencement of the winter's work were not in had a good journey, though it was fairly vain, but a means of rich blessing. Miss rough iµ the Bay-pitching and tossing a bit, Trotter has one or two Danish ladies staying and . the ' fiddles ' on the tables-but we with her who have come to help in her work English folk kept wonderfully well. At among the Arabs. . Lisbon, where we stayed twenty-four hours, " I have been rather encouraged to -;ee we went on shore and spent a pleasant time some of the rough European lads . living in with the agent of the Bible Society, who took the native town coming to our hall

Mr. D. J. Ross writes from · Djemaa eve1·, and facing the loss, obloquy, andperse­ Sahridj on November 29th =:-c" Just a line to· cution more or less deadly; incident upon an tell you that God has graciously answered open profession of Christ; · is a long step and prayer in .regard. to the .recent- Conference of a difficult one in thi~ country... ·. missionaries and converts about. which I " Mrs. Cooksey's native helper. is. doing wrot,e last IIlJOnth. The Conf.erem<:e . will be vaiuable. work in her owb department.. Our remembered by us all with profound feelings boys' classes are promising. The porter-boys' of gratitude to God. Twenty-two mission­ class is taken every Saturday by M.. I have aries· were prnsent (some, 'of course, from had some profitable talks with Jews." othe•r Societies), and the same number of con­ verts. The messages were with power, and + the impression made upon the natives was Tripoli. very deep." Mr. W. Reid writes from Tripoli on . [We !hope next . month to · insert a full Xovember ~bth :-" It was very gratifying to account from the pen of one of our mission­ find so many of the natives welcoming me aries · of this .interesting and encouraging back among them:· I pray for grace that Conference.] their favour may not lead me to fear to tell them the truth. I find that the summer just Tunisia. past has been a bad one, not ,because the Kiss L. E. Roberts writes from Tunis on heat was unusual, but on account of the December rst :_:_" Miss Benzakine left us extreme poverty, practically amounting to yesterday . for a little change at Kairouan. famine. Larg-e numbers have •died of what We .have much to be• ·thankful. for as our some have thought to be a mild kind ' of patient ['Miss· Case's domestic helper who cholera, such as often breaks out amongst has been s~ffering from small-pox] has made the · pilgrims at Mecca. No doubt the pre­ such a quick recovery, and we have kept valent pov,erty led many of the natives to well and not taken -the: infection. eat raw herbs and· what they could pick up "You can . imagine how. glad we · were on from the refuse heaps in the streets. In one Sunday to go to the hall again after some house that I visited a few days after my. weeks' absence, and soon we shall be taking arrival-the house · of an old a:cquaintanc~ up all th_e threads of our work. Our evan­ whom I have looked upon as an -enquirer­ gelist has worked most faithfully in our ! found the whole family looking ill and absence. The hall has been full and the emaciated. I hav,e known these people for Sunday-school also. I was_ much cheered to . sixteen years, and they lived in comparative see many new faces. There a,re some, too, comfort till l~st year. It was a great who are _asking for baptism, which shows pleasure to be able to give them a few fran_cs that progress has been made. Signor A., from a tiny sum of money I had for · d)S" who is now Colporteur of the British and tribution. I wish I 'ha

The late Miss Day of Cherchell, Algeria. It ·is with deep sorrow that we report so she determined to work on as long as the death of our highly esteemed and de­ God gave her strength. . voted missionary, Miss Day, which She came . to England last ,summer m occurred on the evening of Sunday, the hope of getting sympathy and help November 28th, at the British Cottage for the carpet industry in which. she was Hospital, Algiers. s6 deeply interested, but she wa;; not well Miss Day had been suffering from heart enough to take any part in meetings, _and disease for several vears, and had been returned to Algeria in October. She stood told by her medical ·advisers· that her life the journey fairJy well, but soon had ,,,.as very uncertain. J.t was felt, however, another very serious breakdown. After · that she would probably be better in the getting slightly better, she was, at · her . climate of Algeria than in England," and own request and by her doctor's advicet, Ja nua ry, 19 10.] NOR.TH .ll'FR_1CA. 7 removed on November 22nd to the hos­ pital in Algiers. She did not seem much the worse for the journey, but it was evident that the end was near, and six days later she passed quietly into the presence of the Lord. Her last days were bright with spiritual joy; she would have liked to have been spared to the work she loved, but for her own sake she was g-Jad to depart and to be with Christ. , Miss Read, who was the means of her conversion twenty­ five years ago, and with whom she laboured for twenty-three and a half years in Algeria, will sorely miss her, and needs our s~•mpathy and prayers; as also her ag-0d mother and other relatives and fellow-workers. Miss Day was born in June, 1866, and born again in 1884. Her Christian parents lived in Bromley-by-Bow; her mother was of French ·Huguenot descent. Before joining the mission, Miss Day was a teacher under the London School Board. It was while attending· meetings at Harley Hall, a branch of the work carried on bv Dr. and Mrs. Guinness, that she Miss Helena Duval Day. was ied to Christ through the agency of Plioto taken in 1886. Miss Read, who was one ,of the very first sisters trained by them for mission work. route, and was not then very easy of vVhen Miss Read determined to go to access. The population was between North Africa, Miss Day, though less than three and four thousand, partly French twenty years of age, desired to go with and partly native. A French pastor re­ her. She had been interested in mission sided there, as it was the centre of a con­ work, in the first place, through reading siderable ,district of country, and thus a a book by the late Mrs. Guinness, and this good location both for him and for them. interest was increased bv Miss Read's in­ 'fhe two missionaries were full of energy fluence. Though yom{ger than those and earnestness, and at once set to work usually sent out, she was accepted by the to gather the boys and girls around them mission, it being thought that her train­ into classes and to visit the women. In ing as a teacher, and the companionship the different classes about two hundred of Miss Read who was older, would com­ young people were brought regularly pensate for her lack of years. In April, under Scripture instruction, and in the 1886, the two friends were sent to nineteen years since they came to this Tlem9en, a mountain station in the pro­ town, the rising generation have obtained vince of Oran in Algeria, from whence it a good general knowledge of the Gospel was then hoped to reach the Berbf>rs of and leading Bible truths. Probably, many l\.forocco. They labour.ed there for ~, b0t..t -are much better acquainted with the· four years, till their first furlough in 1890. Gospel than ,vith the doctrines of the On returning in the autumn of that year, Koran. they opened a ·new station at Cherchell, There have been a few cases of de­ on the Mediterranean coast, in the pro­ cided conversion, and many more concern­ vince of Algiers and about •fifty or sixty ing whom there have been bright hopes. miles to the west of that city as the crnw One Moslem girl has become an exoep­ Aies. As, however, there w,1s ·no railway tionally true Christian and a bright witness there, it had to be reached by a longer for Christ. The French children haYe 8 NO'J{TH .JIF~TC.ll. (January, ,1910. also peen instructed and the French· pastor and immorality and--broug-ht. daily -under helped and encouraged. . the teaching and influence of the Gospel. _ Miss Day and Miss Read have felt A new building was erected recently, and regret of late years that, as the · children Miss Day was most anxious to get it paid gr~w up, they could · not keep in touch for and· fullv developed.· · with them as thev desired. As the bovs This must now be left for others to approached manh:'ood thev needed a min complete and carry on. It is too soon at to deal with them, and as the . girls got present to give exact particulars, but it older they were confined to · their homes does seem as if it would be a suitable according to Moslem custom. There was monument to the . memory :of our sister also great temptation to immorality, as and her twenty-three years of devoted ther,e was a garrison of native soldiers in labour, to put the carpet school on a satis­ the town, and the natives were, in their factory basis, both financially and in other poverty, very open ~to temptation. ways. Several hundred pounds would-be In order to get the girls · and women needed to do this, but the sales of the more fully under. their Christian _influence, carpets are increasing and the cost of pro­ a few years ago Miss Day started a carpet duction is being lessened .as experience is school. The occupat_ion of carpet-making gained, so that there seems a reasonable had, like other native industries, · almost . expectation that the industry may become died out before French competition. A self-supporting, even if not income-pro­ Christian widow who had ,been taught ducing. " this business was secured, · a~d iMiss Day, Miss Day will be greatly missed. The on her own respon~ibility, obtained funds native women and children loved her, and for the undertaking . .. The '. last few years she loved them and lived for them. Now of her life were devoted to this school in she rests from her labours, and we are which she was untiring in her energy. left J.>ehind to see that the work of God in The work grew, and by mea·ns of it girls which she was so deeply interested is and women were preserved from poverty maintained and extended. E. H. G.

At Rest.

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have k;pt the faith. "-2 TIM: iv. 7. "Having the desire to depart and be with Christ,for it is very far better."-PHIL. i. 23 (R.V.). Our comrade· has fallen, facing the foe to stand the journey. Aft-er a thorough with heaven-born courage, fight/ng examination and consultation the doctors where the battle is hottest and where the agreed that a special treatment should be enemy's line,s appear to human vision followed, and that 'if, after a week or so, scarcely to waver. She has laid down her Miss Day should improve sufficiently, she life for the sacred cause- the uplifting and should be taken to Algiers slowly by the salvation-of Mohammedan women and motor-car. The· prospect seemed to cheer girls. Others will write of her twenty­ and inspire Miss Day, ' for ·though at three vears of devoted service for Christ times we still feared she might not live, in No;th Africa. These few notes tell of she seemed on the whole to " pick up " a her last ·days and of how we laid her little strength, and on Monday, Novem­ precious body in the earth. ber 22nd, was taken in the motor of an On Sunday, November 14th, a con-· · English friend to the hospital inJ A1giers, sultation took place between the French Miss Read and Nurse Prain of the British doctor at Cherchell and the physician of Hosp~tal (who had been on night duty for the British Hospital, Mustapha, Algiers. ten days) accompanying her. Dr. Danger­ Miss Day had -expressed a great wish to field gave little or no hope of her recovery, be taken to the British Hospital, and had though everything that skill and careful intimated that she \vished to die there. nursing could devise was done. We can­ Her . condition was so precarious that it not express our gratitude as we would to seemed very unlikely she would be able Dr. Dangerfield, Miss Mare, and_ the Jan~a ry, 1910.] NOR..TH .ll'FR..TC.11. 9

He had brought her, safely through to victory, the work accomplished, the crown won? On Sunday night, November 28th, about ten o'clock, the tired, brave soul went home to God, and on her face rested " that beautiful peace which is the farewell of the soul to its servant.'' Miss Read, who had returned to her post in Cherchell, heard the sad news on Monday morning, and, accompanied by a fellow-worker, arrived in Algiers in the evening. Words fail to translate our gratitude for the marvellous sympathy and for,e­ thought which had arranged every detail for the funeral and left nothing undone to help Miss Read in this her great sorrow to realise that she has '' brothers and sisters," a,s Christ promised, who are one in Christ with her. Mr. May of the Bible Society, who is Miss Read's and Miss Day's oldest friend in Algeria, and has always g iven invalu­ able assistance whenever needed, had undertaken all the business in connection Miss H. D. Day. with the funeral and arrangements for the Pltoto taken in 1903. mourners. His loving service is rendered with the greatest humility and Christian nurses who cared for our friend with such courtesv. God alone can and will reward ungrudging devotion. him.. Miss Day, repeating to Miss Mare, the Every missionary in Algiers and every matron, the words, " My grace is suffi­ friend that could, seemed jealous for the cient for thee," said, " I do feel the com­ opportunity of showing in some way their fort of those ,vords. I am resting on love and respect for the dear departed one them." and her sorrowing fellow-worker. • On Sunday, she asked to see Mr. Mi-en, Our hea·rts were very thankful to God the Presbyterian minister of the Scotch that some of these friends in consultation Church, Algiers, and he found her quite had grasped the fact that Miss Day peaceful, though very, very weak. They (though a member of the Church of Eng­ joined_ in a last tender remembrance of land) belonged to the Church Universal. the Lord in His death. Miss Day said Thus we met in Christ's presence, each that her soul was in perfect peace, that minister taking a share in committing she had no trouble or anxi,ety, that she our dear one to the earth. was weaned from earth. Thus our The time was too short to let all the Father, in His infinitely tender love, de­ friends know by hand the time of the livered her from the remembrance of her funeral, but an· announcement appeared hopes and fears in connection with the in La Depeche Algerienne on the Tuesday finances of the Carpet-School, and from all morning. heart-breaking thoughts of the devoted The French Protestant churches were friend and fellow-labourer whom she was represented by Monsieur le Pasteur Eldin, to leav,e alone to carry on the blessed work the pastor for Cherchcll, and Monsieur God had honoured her to esfablish. Were Obrecht of Alg iers. her eyes already filled with the vision of The mourners left the hospital about the Son of God, and did she see Him 2.30 on Tuesday atternoon, November st('engthening and bringing her friend, as 30th, for the English church, Mustapha, 10 NORTH AFRJC.A. IJanuary, 1910. Miss Read, on behalf of all the mission­ aties and friends present, the assurance that " we suffer with her." Though we could not do what we would, she might know that she was not alone in her sorrow but surrounded by our sympathy :rnd prayers. Then, as our hearts were longing to comfort and help, our fellow-worker, Mr. Hunter of t he Brethren's •Mission, read in a clear voice the first verse of " Peace, perfect peace "; and, with the · sunlight touching tile !;[!:ads of the. mourners round the grave, reminding 1,1s of the Dawn which will so soon br,eak, we sang all the verses of this beautiful hymn. y r. M~en pron,-?~nced t~e benediction, comm ending us -ro God with the words, " T,he .-~ . 9f,.) ' eace that brought again from:-the ,dea·o · our Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting cov,enant, make you perfect in every good work to do His will, Miss Day with some boys of her class working in you that whi.ch is well pleasing at Tlemcen, 1889. in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to Whom be glory for ever and ever, Amen." where the Rev. - Cronyn, M.A., read KT. part of the Burial Service, and opened to us the gates of heaven as he read the (The following further note has been re­ glorious triumph song of 1 Cor. xv. ceived by a late post from the writer of From the church we drove to the E ng­ the above account of 1Miss Day's funeral, lish cemetery aboYe Boulevard Bru, a most which took place, not at her own station lovely spot overlooking the beautiful Bay at Cherchell, but at Algiers, distant of Algiers, and so high as to seem almost several hours' journey.] to meet heaYen. H ere at the graveside " The native women and girls in Cher­ the Rev. B. ,Ylien, Presbyterian minister chell who loved Miss Day so truly, were of the Scotch church, Alg iers, committed unable to be present at her funeral. But the body to the grave, and led our hearts they were represented by three little in fervent thanksgiving for the life laid native girls from the home of two lady down, and in earnest prayer for Miss Read missionaries in Algiers. These three pre­ a nd the work bequeathed to her by her sented beautiful flowers as a tribute from fnieod. them 'to c;me who loved our people.' Just Monsie ur E. Cuendet of the North after the coffin had been lowered, one of Africa Mission, then referred with deep the little natives threw into the grave emotion, but with a note of triumph, to handfuls of white chrysanthemums. A Miss Day's twenty-three years of un­ wreath rested on the coffin from · the ceasing devotion in service for Christ in girls of the Carpet School, Cherchell, as Algeria. The soldier had fallen in battle; a token of profound affection and grati­ it was ours to press on unflinchingly, con­ tude from her g irl-worker5, who wished fident and dependent, as she was, on the thus to acknowledge the great good she almig,htv power of God. H e tendered to had done to them." J a nua ry, 1910.1 NOR..TH A'F'R1CA. IJ

News from the :Mission Fie-Id. TUNISIA. · From Mr. E. _E. Short and on our leaving, the man said (and evi­ dently meant what he said) that we had (Kairouan). been good to -come to them. November 15th, 1909.-We' went .out November 22nd.-At the first group of on our donkeysto~day; we found ourselves tents visited to-day we only found .some remembered by the people of the first six women at home-the men were all tents visited. Mrs . . Short had nearly gone to town. :Mrs. Short had a long twenty women ~nd children around her, talk with them, and they became and I had three or four men, one of whom interested and pressed us to stay even was blind and another lame. They stood after the long talk was over. . up · warmly for · the repetition of their Some way further along the high road creed· as the one thing that I lacked and . we_met two men, one of whom came up, the 0_ne thing- that would ensure safety to me and asked me if I had a book. I to them. Still, they listened and evi­ gave him a book, a:nd fie began to read, dently understood, the blind man especi­ but slowly and badly. I found they were· ally showing his interest. From tiine to going to their tents in the very group we time '·he pa_id some little attention to a were making for. There were ove1- thin, 1pining baby, covered with flies, who twenty tents in it. We had never been was sitting by itself near him. It was there before. {they said} about eighteen months old, and Our first acquaintance led us to the hadbeendeserted by:its mother ·who had . largest tent, and very soon we had a crowd: re-m<,lrried and had gorie away . . The blind ro_und_us. At our .suggestion, Mrs. Short man was the child's uncle. None of the was left with the women and girls (per­ women folk seemed to look after .it. The haps twenty of them) in one half of the­ poor little thing :was too weak to cry tent, while I and the men-a dozen or so-­ much; and one could foresee nothing for . shifted to the other side. Between us was. it but death from neglect. In answering a sort of low partition, formed of sack~ our questions, the mother's heartlessness and · other household goods stacked was condemned/ but ·whose business was against the central props of the tent. it i:o take care of the child? · Our visit lasted over an hour . . One -old" Outside this tent a number of men and man asked, quietly and earnestly, several' women were sewing together long strips qµestions · bearing . directly on salvation. of material to form a tent. These strips Our first acquaintance, during a pause, were stretched out on th_e ground, some asked me to socak about sacrifice as I f~r or five of them forming the whole had spoken of ·it . when I had met him width. Mrs. Short spoke to the workers, before. Then it came out that I had met -and one young man who could read ac- him on a previous occasion on the same· . cepted a Gospel. road, and had spoken to him and given­ Next, we visited another group of tents him a tract. T•hus the word by the way­ close by:- Here the people did not know ·side had opened up the way for us to us, a'.nd we had to explain who we were speak the words of life to these many before they welcomed us in. . Here again listeners. one of the men spoke up for the profession (repetition) of faith in God and From Dr. Churcher Mohammed. But his interest was gained (Sfax). a<; I spoke of the necessity and value, not The native town of Sfax is very crowded of any form of words or creed, but of vic­ and eye diseases are very common. A tory over arid forgiveness of sin, and of disastrous fatalism often causes the people­ a living : S;iviour. We felt that in some to go on till the sight is destroyed before­ measure· the message had touched them, they come to a doctor. This is very sad, 12 . NO~T11 .JIF~1C.ll. [January, 19i:O. especially with children, their young lives seed may he faliiii1:( into good ground. being marred needlessly. . The children who gather on Suriday We have lately had a boy-patient about afternoons fill the room now, and number, eight years old, whose mother said that Arab and . European together, from forty he had a needle in his leg. It entered his to sixty. \/1/e should like to give them a left side two months ago when he was treat, ~ith, a toy each. If any friends are lying down, and he had felt it in his neck led to help, it would be a clear ca~e of and right side and then for three days in giving to those who · cannot r.epay us his leg. Finding a lump just above his again. · left knee, some cocaine was applied, an T,wo generous friends have provided us incision made, and great was the rejoicing with a good stock of lantern slides, so that when a complete sewing-needle, perfectly our Arab boys' class on Wednesday~ black, emerged. flourishes. \/1/ e had twenty-four, in . the A little girl came, one day, nearly crazy class last week. We used the '-lantern with fear; with five large maggots in her lately· at a meeting for British sailors. ear. When they were all removed, it was There were eight present, but as not one sweet to see the changed face of the little was of British nationality, we felt it was a patient. Another brave little man of real bit of foreign work.. eight had burnt his leg and arm badly hi We have v-entured to take a small extra stumbling into the supper-pot which was room, in order to entertain· sick strangers cooking on the fire. These sick and their from afar. Your kind helping together friends hear the Good News daily, by prayer for this new .effort is affection­ and we pray that some of the good ately invited.

Soine1 Accoun.t of Recent Work·done in the Tulloch Memorial Hospital at Tang.ier.

We thought the friends of mission work return v, again and again even after the in Morocco might be interested to hear interval of a year. They take away copies a short account of some work done lately of the colloquial Gospel to their distant in the Tangier Hospital. villages, and often .come back asking for The usual routine is, first, all who come more.• as out-patients assemble in the large hall As everyone knows, work amongst and are there addressed in Arabic. Moslems must be slow and very :little · Sometimes a hymn is sung. When the in­ result is seen. Moslems are so •sure that patients are well enough, they come down they are right and that we poor Christians from the wards, and it is cheering to see are deluded. No one born in safe,. fre.e these Moors, from many districts of England can tell what it means to a Mos­ Morocco, listening perhaps for the first lem or Jew to forsake the religion of his time in their lives to the Gospel of the fathers · and become what they have all grace of G·od. Many friends have been taught to despise, a follower o{ the helped in this part of the work. When Nazarene. I hav,e had many quiet talks possible, someone stays with the patients, with some of these. They say that in reading or talking kindly to them whilst their hearts they believe in our -·Saviour they are waiting to take their turn to go and love Him, but they ,are afraid, because in to the doctor. As they return from of their own families and friends; to say him, they again sit down till their medi­ that they believe in Christ. The Lord cines are ready. One lady is at work in knows the hearts of all, and perhaps in the dispensary, whilst another does the last great Harvest-day . we may find .dressings and helps the doctor with surgi­ many gathered in from Morocco; and then cal work. The men listen very quietly they who have sown in .discouragement and with great interest, and many of them and· tears· sha!I reap in joy. Let us all go January, 19-10.] NO~TH .AF~1CA. 13

bravely forward into the New Year, look­ \Ve found they ' had brought a poor ing unto J~sus, from whom comes our Moorish woman ,who had fallen from a strength, and praying to be filled with the roof on her head, and who looked as if Holy Spirit, Who alone . can give us the she _were already past help. She was right message, and give power to live covered with blood, her right arm was aright and be ~itnesses for Jesus in broken (both bones) and the left too (one this dark co1mtry. Let us pray, too, bone). Her. collarbone was broken and that all the . workers mav be preserved her head badlv cut. W -e did not think she in health. · · could live th;ough the night, but to our Go_d's ways are mysterious. When our surprise she did, and went on recovering. dear young friend, . Miss Georgine Smi.th, In this way our hospital came to be had become a most useful worker and was opened again, though we had no lady to invaluable. to: Dr. Wilson, she was re­ help. We found our · Moorish hospital mov-ed:almost suddenly to a higher sphere attendant a gr-eat comfort. of service. · Miss Reed had come to Next day a poor man begged to be ad­ work for t)Je. Master., and she nobly mitted, saying that he had been poisoned, did . what she could to keep the but he knew Christians would care for and hospital work going; Miss Woodell be kind to him. He would not go away, gave temporary. help, . but could not so we .. took him in, though he was far stay long as s_he was.working with Miss advanoed in phthisis and an incurable. Hubbard. Then, Miss Hodgson volun­ ~efore he died, he said how thankful he teered to come and· nurse. 'All went was to b~ in such comfort and among smoot:hly for a time, until, Miss Reed got . friends. Then a man ·was left lying at fever, taken, we all think, from hospital the . gate very ill, and another who had patients, as it seemed most catching, and been before in the hospital came all the we ha,d · a number . at that time with acute way. from the Soudan with bad fevers. The fever )eft Miss ~eed· so .run~ ophthalmia and one eye nearly· gone. down in. health thafit was thought advis­ ~nother . had· been stabbed in a quarrel, able for-her to return . at" once to E~gland and there were some more bad fever cases, and hav.e a change.. Miss Hodgson felt soldiers'. ·of the Sultan's army, who ·live in that she could not <,orttinue .nursing tel).ts at our gates on the Marshan and are without anqther . lady's help, especially as frequent visitors to our dispensary. she knew nothing of the language.. Then All these patients recovered and · left Mrs. Wilson, whilst dispensing . and cured, after having heard the Gospel nursing, etc., caught the..fever. Seven men three times daily. · Mrs. Isaacs (sister of were in. at once, dangerously iB with high the late Miss Herdman), who spent much temperatures, unconscious, and qften. time with them and the out-patients, said delirious. · They all . recovered, but whilst that she found them very attentive and they were ., still regaining strength,,5,l she willing to learn texts a nd take away was laid aside for . eighteen, days. As Gospels. Mrs. Isaacs was very kind, and then no worker. was left to dispense or qujte sorry when the hospital had to be nurse, the · work . had to be dosed for a closed to let the doctor go for a much­ , time,. except that the doctor saw a small needed change. H e had had, all through number-for whom he could dispense him­ the summer, occasional attacks of low self; There is always .. somet)Jing · to . do fever, and felt that he needed a change. for sick missionaries or. their. servants. J,3esides, as Mrs. Wilson was going, there · During Ramadhap, the . hospital was was no one to help in any way, and he closed; but about half through the month. could not undertake the work alone. the doctor started the out~oatients' de­ Miss Reed hopes to return in early partr:neQit, as so many. cam,e. ~sking to, see spring, and then we trust that the work him. . Mrs .. Wilson had rega.ip~· strengt&, will open up and be a means of attracting sufficient to dispense, and Mr .. Steven o'P many· Moors to hear the Gospel. There the · British and foreign Bible Society seems to be no other way to get an audi­ kindly gave J:iis help, both: · in. spea~ing ence of men· to hear about Christ. Coming a11d dispensing. One Sunday a large to the doctor prevents them being blamed crowd. gathered round the hospital gate. for listening to the Gospel. A. W. NO~T11 AF~lCA. [January, 19 10. J~ nuary, 1910.J NO'J

The Kabyles of Algeria.

The name Kabyles is· simply 1i1e Eng- streams and two or three fairly broad but . lish . f.orm of th. e Arabic word mea~U!,:g shallow and rapid rivers. When the tribes. The country people . of Alg.a i;'now melts in the spr~ng, the streams retained their tribal organisation, and so become violent torrent~; but by the end of were known . as the tribes or Kabyles in summer, the river-beds are wide str.etches cont~adistinction . to the townsfolk; who of stones, through which in places little were of more mix,ed ..origin, and . whose streams find their way. · gov,emment was rnther..of the monarchic The supply of w~ter being abundant, cal order. The tribes living near Algiers Kabylia is one of the most verdant arid were, largely aboriginal Berbers, . descen­ fruitful parts of Algeria, and has b'een dants of the famous Numidians who had compared to Switzerland though it lacks inhabited the . oountry for • thousands of its lakes. Wild flowers grow in profu­ years : and from among whom Hanruibal sion on the hills, and beside the cascades . had recruiited his_ famous cavalry. Tilley. maidenhair ferns grow luxuriantly. The spoke their own Berber or Numidian Ian- country is noted for its magnificent olive . gµage w)lich .was as . anoient as the trees . and its excellent olive .oil. Fig Hebrew .or Arabic, · but· they · do not seem trees are ,cultivated everywhere; and the to have had any. literature. Those living fruit, fresh or dried, forms a staple article on . the plains or residing in the towns of. diet. Oranges, lemons and pome­ gradually abandoned ~heir native tongue, granates abound, and,grapes grow plenti­ and adopted the Arabic language of their fully, though before the French occupa- conquerors. . But. those .in the mountains . tion they w.er,e not much cultivated, as the and less accessible parts retained, and still Kabyles, being Moslems, are not · sup­ retain, their nativ,e 1;lerber language. . . posed to drink wine or intoxicating At the present .time the mountaineers liquors. Here and there, a rather are known . as Kabyles, and the dwellers ' stunted palm tree may be seen; but it is in the plains or cities as · Arabs. · 'N,o too cold and too high for the da:te to pro- doubt these latter, though originally . duce fruit. Wheait and other grain are mainly of . the same race, . have now a grown; and goaits, sheep and. cattle ::tre greater admixture of Arab cir foreign kept, but not in such larg-e numbers as blood. . upon the plains or on the table-lands., The Kabyles are found in various. parts _of lower and more easily cultivated land was North Af'rica. . They are called . Riffs, confiscated by the French after the con­ Sousies, Chouia, Tourags, etc., accord­ quest and the quelling of the rebellion of ing. to the locality they inhabit. . Those, 1871., and is in the hands of French however, who are · more particularly col,onists: 'Dhese have in some cases let known as Kabyles .are the .people who if out again to the natives. The methods dwell in the · Djtir-Djura mountains, about of agriculture are very primi,tive. The fifty. to a hundred miles east' of the city of ploughs are similar to thpse used hun- Algiers. This region is know,n as La dreds . of , years ago. · . . Grande Kabylie, and extends alori,g J: he E:ach tribe has a president · of its own, Mediterranean coast · from Dellys on . the who is_ now appointed by the French west to Bol);gie ,on . the east, and about authoi;iti,es. The villages are generally fifty . miles inlan~ to the . southern slopes perched upon the spur of a hill from one of the Djur~Djura mountains. The high­ to three thousand feet above sea level. est peak of,this range reaches an altitude High ground was chosen, so that they of over.·7,500 feet, and there are many . could easily be defended against a foreign more nearly as high.' The · summits are· foe or against the attacks of neighbouring only free from snow for a short time tribes before· the French conquest. during the · year, and · in · the winter. the · The houses are usually built of stones snow blocks the pa~Ses. . · . without mortar, and ·are consequently .riot The whoJ.e of Kabylia is a land of very secure. They are seldom more than mountains and• valleys, with numerous one storey high, and are roofed with red 16 NO"l{TH .ll'F'R.1CA. [January, 1910. til~ placed on rafters obtained from the and eat w~th a wooden spoon; the women branches of the trees on the hills. There have to put up w~th what the men leave. are generally two apartments, separated There is a mosque in most of the large from. on,e another by a dwarf partition villages and also .a ,meeting-room called ~ about three feet high, and in one of these djemaa. : T.his djemaa usually has a the domestic animals are kept to prevent pasag-e running thr?ugh i! with a raised their being stolen,. Frequently several stffl\e olatform on either srde. Here the houses are placed together, thus forming men ~eeit to talk and smoke when their a com!:)ound. work is ov-er. The Kabyles are not a The houses have no windows or chim­ dark race; i-ri some cases they are quite neys, and the smoke fro_m the fire has to fair. The · majority have a rather pale, escape through the door, the tiles, or the sun-burnt complexion. Compared with chinks in the walls. The people sleep in the Arabs they are fairly industrious, but the'clothes they wear during the day, and compared wirth BriJtishers they are slack instead of a bedstead they have · a raised and careless. , platform of beaten clay to lie upon. The The population of La Grande Kabylie is cooking utC'::nsils are of the simplest between two hundred · thousand and a character'. The na.tional diet is couscous, quarter of a million; or abou,t the twenti­ a preparation made from flour, in sub­ eth part of the total populaition of Algeria. stance like macaroni and in appearance Although differen,J: dialects are spoken, like small grains of seed. T!-Jis they anyone familiar with the Kabyle of Djur­ steam over vegetables or meat when they Djura would be able to make himself can afford it, and serve with pepper or unders1tood among the orther tribes · of the· hot sauce. It is s·Ubstantial and oalat­ Berbers of Algeria. able. The men sit round a common dish (To be continued.)

TO THE MEMBERS , .OF THE PRAYER AND WORKERS' UNION. Requests for Praise and Prayer. PRAISE. For two new Moorish girls in Mrs. For the unnumbered loving-kindnesses of Rober,ts' school at Tangier. our God during 1909 both to individual For a Moor in Casablanca who is reading workers and to the Mission as a whole. the Gospel openly in his shop, that the en- ' That Mr. Moore is . able to report the trance of the Word may give light; also for new Spanish Mission building ~t Tan~ier two Rabbis who have listened to the Gospel sufficiently ready to hold the special services message. . from mid-December to mid-January. For the missionaries at Cherchell who are That the half-holiday affecting the Jewish mourning the loss- of their fellow-worker, girls in Tangier has been altered back again, , Miss Day ; and for clear guidance about the thus enabling them still to come to the class. continuance of the carpet industrial work. For answered prayer in connection with That the many deaths among the natives the Sunday School and Sunday services at in Tripoli may be sanctified to those be­ Tebessa ; and prayer that God's blessing may reaved, that their hearts may be prepared to be continued. receive the Lord Jesus. For a Conference at Djemaa Sahridj of For Mr. Liley, wqo is still on depu.tation miss.ionaries of the N.A.M. and other ,Socie­ work and taking _meetings almost' every day, ties, with Kabyle converts fro!11 lslam, re­ that strength may be given him, and that cently held with the very mamfest presence God's blessing may rest richly upon his and power of the Holy Spirit. efforts. . . · PRAYER. That several missionaries, whose health For the month's Gospel mission which is causes anxiety, may, if it please God, have a now being held in our new Spanish church renewal of strength for further service in at Tangier. (See page 5.) North Africa. Jan11a ry, 1910.J NO'l{TH AFJacA. iii

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,cr.- c---·o :S [.·. v c CiTA8· , LC t, •· 0 .-, Stations of N .A.M., Eighteen. In Algeria ; Djemaa Sahridj, Constantine, Cherchell, Algier~, Tebessa. la Morocco; T angier, Fez, Tetuan, Casablanca, Laraish. In Regency of Tunis; Tunis, Susa, Kairouan, Bizerta, Sfax. In Tripoli ; Tripoli. In Egypt; Alexandria, Shebin-el-Kom. ARTICLES FOR SALE. "Tuckaway Tables."-Will friends kindly blouses for ladies (nun's ,·eiling), cream or make known that these small handy folding­ white, ordinary size, 4s. 6d. each. Proceeds tables can be had, hand-painted with flowers, in aid of the N.A.l\l. P lease apply to Mrs. wood-stained, either mahogany or walnut­ Pakeman, Salem, Carlisle Avenue, St. Albans. wood, from C. '.\1. G., Bankside, Silverdale Home - made Confectionery. - Creams ~ Road, Eastbourne, price 13s. 6d., postage peppermint, ginger, lemon, etc.: 2 lbs., post a nd packing case included. The proceeds free, 2s. 8d. : smaller quantities a t Is. 4d. will go to the funds of the N.A.M. per pound, postage extra. Please send Knitted gloves, white or coloured, orders, with remittance enclosed, to N. L. , ordinary size, :is. per pair. Also nicely made Lakeview, Bangor, co. Down. North Africa Mission Publications. •• THE GOSPEL IN NORTH AFRICA." By JOHN RUTHERFURD, M.A., B.D., and EDWARD H. GLENNY. Over 120 Illustrations and 8 Maps. Prices (net reduced):-- s. d. Good paper, bound in paper boards ...... 1 6 High class paper, bound in paper covers 1 6 ,, ,, ,, ,, cloth boards 2 6 Art paper, bound in cloth boards, gilt lettered 3 6 BOOKLETS: -·" Taib and Boorawiyah" per doz. 3 0 " The Conversion of a Tunisian Mohammedan " ,, ,, 0 6 PICTURE POSTCARDS :- Six "real photograph" cards from photos taken in Tunis by Mr. A. V. Liley 1 0 Six " real photograph " cards from photos taken in Egypt by Mr. George Chapman 1 0 Six cards illustrating " Life in Morocco " 0 3½ • NORTH AFRl43A," the Monthly Record of the North Africa Mission, illustrated per annum 1 6 All post free. iv "NO'R.TH AFRTCA. [ January, 1910.

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WOOD, EsQ., Eltham. Hon, Treasurer. Hon. Secretary. Acting and Assistant llecretary. J. W. GORDON-OSWALD, EsQ. CoL. G. WINGATE, C.I.E.. M. H. MARSHALL. Bankers, LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN BANK, j Hon, Auditors, M&s1111. A. HILL, VELLACOTT & Co. , Islington Branch, Loa don, N . 1, Finsbury Circus, London, E.C. ®fflce of tbe llMssion:- 4, HIGHBURY CRESCENT, LONDON, N. Gifts in money or in kind should be addressed-" The Secretary, North Afrioa Mission, 4, Highbury Oreseent, London, N." All cheques and money orders should be made payable to order of the "North Africa Mission." Remittances may also be paid into the London and South-Western Bank, Upper Street, Islington, or to any of its branches. Parcels fo r transmis.ion to the field can, if not exceeding I I lb. in weight, be 1ent to North African ports by Foreign Parcel Post from any post office in Great Britain. The cost can be ascertained from the Postal Guide. Boxes and Cases can be sent to the N. A. M., c/o Messrs, Bride and Eastland, 39, City Road, London, E.C. Particulars as t<> contents and value, which must be declared for Customs' purposes, should be sent to the office of tac Mission. Before sending large cases, fri ends should write for shipping instructions. A note showing the cost of freight ancl charges will be sent fr om the offi ce in each instance, when the shipping account has been settled. LOCATION OF MISSIONAR.IES. -·------·· ______A_L_C_E_R_I_A_. ______B_l-ze_r_t_a_. - --,1J'""a..,,-,--:-o/ MOROCCO, A rrival Date of Chercheli, Dale 0 1 Miss !If. ERICSSON ...... N ov., 1888 Tangier. Arrival . A , n val. Miss R . J. r.,fARKUSSON ••. N ov., 188 8 Mi.. L . R K A D .•. Gao. WILSON , MA, M.B .... Dec., 1 9o6 . .. April, 1886 Susa. :Miss K. J o HNSTON ... Jan., 1892 Mrs. WtLSON .. . •. Dec., 1906 Mrs. R o e RRTS ...... •. Dec., 18g6 Miss E . TvRNKR ... J a n., 1892 .Mr. J. J. CooK :-; Ev t,lis, J. ]Av ...... NoY,, 1885 Algiers. l\Irs. Coo KSRY .•. Miss G. R. S. BnE RZE, Kabyle W o1k- Kairouan. M.B. tLond.) ... •. . Dec, , 189 -4 M. E. CUEN DET ... Sept., 1884 Mr, E. SHORT ... Feb., 18Q9 Miss F. MARST ON ... N ov., 1695 ! MadRme Cu&ND B:T •• . Sept., 1885 Mrs. SHO RT ••• . •. ... Oct. , 189.9 llliss I. L . REl'.D ... Oct ., TQ08 Mr. A. S HOREY ... . Nov., 1902 Miss G. L . AonIN SELL .. . Ngv., 189_; M rs, S H OR EY ... • • • Oct., 1904 srax. Spau ish Work- DJemaa Sahrldj. T. G.CH URCHER, Kah>•I• rVork- M.B., C. M. (Ed.) .,. Oct., 1885 A. ]. Moore ll.A. . .. April, 1909 Mr. Mr. D. Ross ... Nov., 1902 l\fn,. CHURCHER ... Oct., 1889 Mi.. F. R. BROWN ...... Oct., 1889 Mrs. R oss ...... Nov., 1902 Mr.H.E. WEBB , •. Dec., Ii92 Miss V ECCHIO, S chool M ,-stnss. Miss T. Cox •• • • .. May, 1887 Mrs . WEBB ... Nov., 1897 Miss k . SMITH •.. ... May, ,887 Casablanca. Constantine. Mr. J. L . L OCHHEAD •• . ... Mar,, 1 8 9 2 DEPENDENCY OF TRIPOLI. Mr. 0 . E. SIM PSON Dec. 1 1896 Mrs. L oCH H EAD ••. ... :Mar., 1893 Mr. W . R EID •• • ... Dec., 1891 Mrs. S1MPSON ...... Mar ., 1898 l\liss E. K. L ocHHEAD ... Mar., 1892 Mrs. R 1nD ••• . .. Df':C., 189-4 Mi• I'. M. BANK S ... May, 1888 Mr. P. SMI TH .•. . .. Feb., 1899 Mr. W. T. BOLTON ... Feb. , 1897 Mrs. S MI TH ...... Sept., 1900 Mrs. H OLT O N.. . • •. . .. Dec., 1897 Miss F. HARNDEN , •• N ov., 1900 Tetuan. Miss F , M. HARRALD ... Oct., 1899 Miss E . L o vELRSS .. . Nov., 1902 Miss ]. It. EARL ... Oct. , 1Q091 Miss A. BOL TON ... April, 1889 Tebessa. ... Oct., 1891 Miss A. G. HUBBA R D . .. Miss A, Cox ...... Oct., 1 892 ... Oct., 1905 M iss M. K NI GHT ••. M iss N. BAGSTRR . .. Oct. , 1894 EGYPT • Miss H. E. W OODi:l.L ... Jan., 1907 Alexandria. Mr. W. DICKINS ... Feb., x8!)6 RECENCY OF TUNIS. · Mrs. Dic KINS ...... Feb,, x8!)6 Laralah. Tunla. Miss R. H o DG>: s .•. Feb., 188g ... Mar., 1887 ),.Ii" S. J ENNI NGS tMr. A. V. LILEY ... J u.!y, 1885 S!teb ln-el·Kom . Mias K. A LDRI DGE ... Dec.1 1891 tMrs. LILE Y ••• ... April, 1886 Mr. W. T . FAIRMAN ,.. N ov., 1897 Miss H . M . M . TAPP ... Oct., 1903 Mrs. FAIRMA N ... Feb., , 806 Fez. Italian Work - M r. G. C H A PM A N Nov., 1907 CASK •• . • •. Miss L. GREATHRA D ••• ,., Nov., 1890 Miss A. M. Oct., 18go Provisionally at Asyut. Miu M . MEL LETT · •• • ... Mar., 1892 J\l iss L. E. ROBERTS •• • • •. Feb., 1899 Miss H . B. CAws ••. Oct. , 1907 Associated Wo,-ke,-- Pr.ovisionally at Luxor. Mi.. s. M. DEnJSON ...... N ov.1 1893 Miss I. Drr L A CAM P ... Jan., 1897 Miss ~f. BENZAKINR ... Jan., 1900 M iss M. Mc LEAN ... April, 1 909 IN ENCLAND,-Miss B. V INING, Invalided. t In E ngland for Deputation W ork.

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