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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 14, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 28.

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Egypt

By J. M. KEICHLIN[E]

CAIRO.—I am working among the Moslems almost exclusively; they know me as a doctor, and not as a missionary. Every day I have conversations with the native Moslems about salvation from sin, our doctrines, health principles, etc., and always have my Bible on my desk, and while talking, I open it for reference. All who know me know my principles and belief. To the fanatical I do not talk about Christ, but to the educated only. Some of them say I am a better Moslem than they, for I practise what Mohammed tells them to do. Many of these dear people love me. Although our principles are so different from theirs that they think me strange because of my habits of living, yet they respect me for my daily life and teaching.
Among the patients who daily come to me, some are able to pay, but there are many who can not pay. The latter I do not encourage, because I do not have the money to pay for supplies. A servant here receives only from two and one-half to five cents a day.
Some one has said, “Egypt has fifty creeds, and no religion.” This is true, and each sect makes its prime object that of gaining believers. I want to make my first work the saving of these poor, ignorant, superstitious people from real, every-day sin, and educate them in a simple religion, to help the sick, the discouraged, the publican, the children, and all who need help. And who is my teacher, my guide, my master in this?—Christ Jesus the Lord, my Elder Brother, praise God!
I am especially interested in the young men—students, officers, government employees, lawyers, doctors, clerks. Thousands of them are in Cairo, and there are tens of thousands of young men here during the winter. I pray the Lord that he may help me to start a work here for them, that they may see that Christ loves them.
I am here to do God's will in Cairo, and when he sees fit to send me to Syria or to Sudan, I am ready to go. Pray for me. J. M. KEICHLIN[E], M. D.