Egypt

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Oct 11, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 41.

Egypt.—Missionary work in Egypt, as in all Mohammedan countries, can not be carried on without serious interferences. Intolerance is the rule. Recently in the city of Cairo, open-air meetings were held by some English church missionaries, and large crowds attended, the people generally listening for a time attentively, but always ending with a disturbance. When subsequently the meetings were held in a school-room, the place was not large enough to accommodate the crowd. The Arabic newspaper attacked the missionaries and their movements so fiercely that the meetings were widely advertised and the people flocked to hear what was said. But the hostility was so intense that it has been necessary to abandon the attempt. There are some beliefs which can not bear the light.—Missionary Herald.