JANUARY STUDY OF THE FIELD.
(Text-book, January Magazine.) A CHANGE will be noticed in our field study this month. In arranging the material that will make up the Missionary Magazine during 1900, it was decided to publish monthly several articles particularly adapted to the Reading Circle work, and upon these especially our study will be based. It was further planned to use the current issue of the journal rather than the previous one, so that the questions and articles may be in the hands of the students at the same time. This necessitates the preparation of the questions from the manuscript before the paper is made up, and will account for the apparent lack of harmony between the arrangement of the articles in the body of the Magazine and in the study. This week the study is based upon one article. Where possible, we would urge further reading upon the field under consideration. Occasionally we shall suggest for additional reading such books as may be helpful. Send your answers to your field study, monthly, as heretofore, to your State missionary secretary, or whoever may have charge of the work in your Conference. If you do not have the address of this officer, correspond with the Foreign Mission Board, 150 Nassau St., New York City, and you will be put in touch with him. 1. What does the Bible call Egypt? 2. What evidence have we that it was settled by descendants of Noah at an early date after the flood? 3. Give some reasons that seem to indicate that the inhabitants of Egypt had at one time a knowledge of the true God. 4. Give instances showing that God's people have been in touch with the Egyptians all along down through the ages. 5. By what name were the early Egyptian Christians called? 6. About how many of these people are faithful at the present time? 7. What is the population of Egypt to-day? 8. What has recently tended to open the doors of Mohammedan Egypt to the entrance of the gospel? 9. Who first preached the third angel's message in that country? What fate befell him? 10. Through whom was the message next carried to this field? 11. How have they shown a missionary spirit? With what results? 12. How many laborers are there in Egypt at present? 13. In how many languages is the message now being circulated there? 14. Locate upon the map the districts in which our laborers are now carrying forward their work. 15. What experience of the Christians of the early church was repeated in the circumstances that caused the Armenians to carry the truth into Egypt?