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Glimpses of Bible Institute Students Around the World B y B e s s e D . M c A n l is
(More than three hundred graduates of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles have entered upon missionary careers. The following splendid article by Mrs. McAnlis is o f special interest in. that she is herself a graduate of “Biola,” class o f 1916, and for several years served the Institute most efficiently as Superintendent of Women.)
aheen women and children; frequently we notice babies’ cradles standing in the fields, the mother working near by. It is to this deserving class of agricultural people that the Egypt, General Mission Hospital largely ministers. Martha Leal, as nurse, goes through the wards like an angel in white, caring for this worn woman or that wee crippled lad. This mission has in effect a most com mendable plan whereby one day a week each nurse is relieved from hospital duty in order to visit the homes of patients and others in the country and villages round about. As messengers of the Gospel they thus have a definite part in personal evangelism. Pray for Miss Leal as she represents the Master in Egypt. GUDRUN ESTVAD, we find, at the time of our visit, principal of a girls’ school in the heart of the old city of Cairo. Narrow little streets, redolent with odors of every sort, lined with a variety of one-room shops with their wares open to the flies and dust of the street, lead to this school. The building has been used as a mission school for half a century, we are told. The children and their teachers (Egyptian Christians) have assembled for chapel. As we speak to them, Miss Estvad acting as interpreter, their faces brighten in happy contrast to the somber black apron-like dresses worn almost universally by the children in Egypt. A few tiny little boys attend, and their bright fezzes, worn on their heads even in the schoolroom, attract our attention. What an opportunity for Christ each child presents! Our hearts rejoice in the fact that a regular course in Bible study is taught here. Miss Estvad’s work has since been changed and she is now a member of the music faculty at the large Girls’ College (United Presbyterian) in Cairo. The writer well remembers the morning when she spoke at the chapel exercises of this college and visited the dormitories and buildings. RACHEL SEIVER is directing the work of native Bible women at Fayoum, Egypt. Our train will carry us
HE royal commission, “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel,” has been answered by many graduates and students of the Bible Insti tute of Los Angeles. It has been the author’s privilege during a year and a half of recent travel in various countries around the world to visit numbers of mission stations where former students of the Institute were at work for the Master. Without the inconveniences of travel, or the discom forts of tropical temperatures, both of which one is obliged to endure in actual traveling, suppose you come with me for a brief visit to a few of these stations. E g y pt We shall go first to Egypt, that ancient land of the Pharaohs, where centuries of Moslem domination and the consequent degradation of women and children sadden one’s heart. We shall visit three of the young women here —MARTHA LEAL ( ’24) in Shebin El Kanatir (Egypt General Mission), GUDRUN ESTVAD ( ’24) in Cairo (United Presbyterian Mission), and RACHEL SEIVER ( ’25) in Fayoum (United Presbyterian Mission). To reach Shebin El Kanatir, where Martha Leal is stationed, we shall board a small local train at the large Union Railway Station in Cairo. From the train win dows we see many novel sights in the broad-spreading Nile Valley through which we travel. The fertile fields teem with life as the hard-wordking fellaheen, the agri cultural people of Egypt, care for the crops. Farming is done in a very primitive way. The huge cumbersome water buffalo usually furnishes the motor power for plow ing. A large part of the farm labor is done by the fell
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