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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 9, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 15.

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Palestine

By W. C. Ising

W. C. ISING
I HAVE just returned from my long journey to Bagdad and Mosul, ancient Nineveh, which took some nine months in all.
It is a pleasure to us to know that the brethren in America take such an interest in us. We certainly follow closely the development of the work over in the States, and especially the opening up of new fields.
There are interesting items I should like to write about, but Sabbath is drawing on, and the fact that I plan to leave for the East Jordan tomorrow evening with Elder Henry Erzberger, does not leave time to write all I should like to.
Later we shall be able to send on some good reports. Mrs. Ising can furnish some interesting material of her work among Moslem women and children. While I made my long trip of nine months, I sent my wife and daughter to London. My wife took a course there, and has passed her examinations successfully in the institution she attended.
Photo by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.
Photo by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.
At the same time she has wonderfully improved in the English. Little Thea, who is now more than six years of age, went to a sort of kindergarten, and speaks the English now as readily as any little English girl. This was indeed a practical arrangement. They reached Beirut a week ago, a few days after my return. Mrs. Ising's work among Moslem women will help me in my evangelistic lines here in the East. Without anything substantial like this, in my opinion, it gives satisfaction neither to the people nor to the worker to simply teach the people religion, for you have nothing with which to meet prejudice.
A work on lines similar to that which we are now carrying on successfully in German East Africa and other foreign lands, is certainly very advantageous. The same could be done here, only on a somewhat different scale; but quite a large percentage of the expenses could be secured. The medical work is certainly the most suitable, but it does not suffice to have it done by a nurse while even native doctors abound. My observations on the trip in the interior have strengthened my convictions in this respect. In our methods we have no competition at all here in the East, although the Americans are carrying on an extensive medical work.