Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 30, 1915

Our missionaries who are grappling with strange languages, particularly those who are endeavoring to reduce those languages to writing, will find much help in a new book entitled “General Phonetics for Missionaries and Students of Languages,” by G. Noel-Armfield. It is published by W. Heffer, Cambridge, England. Price, net, three shillings, or seventy-two cents.

A Bible colporteur working among the Moslems had this experience one day: “In the bazaar the people drew around me, and some of them wished to buy my books. One came forward, and after examining the volumes, said: ‘When I was a soldier at Bahrein I bought these books, but when I found that they taught infidelity I destroyed them. These Christians want to change our faith.’ Hearing this, the young men and boys began to throw stones and mud at me, and had I not been helped by an old Moslem, I should have been seriously hurt. Later, when I was in my room at the caravansary, boys threw stones, and Moslem effendi spat in my face, saying: ‘O Protestant, leave those books! Leave your weak thoughts, O infidel!’ Just then a Sergeant and several privates examined the books, and took eight copies to the governor. They returned them after an hour, and when the people saw that nothing was done to me, they left me.”