p. 11 | ARABIAN MISSIONS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 22, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 42.

ARABIAN MISSIONS.

THE work in "the neglected peninsula," says the Missionary Review of the World, consists chiefly in medical treatment at the mission stations, and in the sale of the Arabic Scriptures to Jews and Moslems by native helpers. An interesting example of the way in which the Lord turns apparent misfortune into blessing is seen in a recent riot in Muscat. In a fight between two Arab chiefs the mission premises were looted and a large supply of Bibles were stolen. These were put up at auction and sold as foreign books to one of the Arabs. He, in order not to lose money on his purchase, sent his slaves all over the district, and they sold the copies of the Scriptures to hundreds of Moslems who could otherwise never have been reached directly by the missionaries. The work is progressing in the face of many difficulties, climatic, financial, and Satanic.