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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 26, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 9.

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THE WORK IN EGYPT.

By Louis Passebois

[From a personal letter to the editor.]
We are enjoying much of the Lord's rich blessing. The Lord is working in the land of the Pharaohs, and we are glad. We hope the work will soon extend to many dark spots of the large continent of Africa.
Brother Conradi was recently here with us for a short time, and we had the joy of seeing nine souls go into the waters of the Nile to be buried by baptism with their Lord. A church was then organized with sixteen members. We are glad that the truth is getting a foothold among the natives, and that the Lord is raising able men among them who well know the English language, and thus can get the light, and preach it in their native tongues better than we foreigners could.
The week of prayer was a season of great blessing, and we are confident that it will bring forth fruit to the glory of God. Though our company is small and poor, yet each one did what he could, denying himself for Christ, and those who were in such circumstances that they could not give money gave themselves to the Lord, and we believe the Lord heard their prayer, and accepted them gladly. The donations amounted to a little over forty dollars. No doubt the future has better things for Egypt. We have been a long time without doing anything for this country, and the Lord holds us responsible.
From nearly all standpoints, there is no place in the Orient more suitable than Egypt to be made the center from which to send out laborers in all the Orient and to many dark spots in Africa. Here we might have a training-school for missionaries; and after we have the farm secured, students, especially native scholars, might be sustained at little expense. The soil is very productive where water from the Nile can be obtained. We have all freedom for religious operations, and we can publish here, and send into Turkey, Greece, etc., etc.
Egypt is ready for a more aggressive work. The Lord has prepared the way for us. Now, shall we improve the opportunity? or shall we delay more and more, till we have to do the work under more difficult circumstances? May the Lord give us grace, and help us to do the work as He wishes us to do it.
O that our churches in America might realize the needs of this field here in Africa, and sacrifice to bring light to the thousands who are daily perishing in their sins. Where are the faithful and consecrated workers, ready to enter Egypt and the Soudan, with their millions of souls who have never heard of the Gospel of the kingdom? Where are the consecrated sisters to come here among the millions of women who can never be seen by any man outside their homes, and thus can be reached only by the ministration of women? Doors are wide open for them to enter the homes of Mohammedan ladies who have never heard the Gospel, and who will welcome them.The work among women must all be done in this country by women, and from house to house. No one can be reached by meetings. We should have dozens of sisters here in Cairo alone. May the Lord roll the burden of this work upon our sisters, and may some say, "Here am I, Lord; send me."
At present I have better health than I have ever had in my life before, and my family also is very well. In the summer-time it is a little hot; but the Lord provides strength, and keeps us, and we were sick, or rather indisposed, only for a short time.
Cairo, Egypt. LOUIS PASSEBOIS.