EGYPT GENERAL MISSION

Evening Star, Issue 22975, 4 June 1938, Page 21

EGYPT GENERAL MISSION

LANTERN LECTURE A large and representative audience assembled at the Y.M.C.A. Hall on Monday evening to welcome Mr Arthur L. Skeels, who has returned to Dunedin on his first furlough, after a period of about four years and a-half in Egypt. The chairman (Mr George Gibson), introducing Mr Skeels, expressed the goodwill of those who were present to welcome him, and later Mr Skeels commenced his address. He assured his audience that missions to Moslems were truly worth while, shpwing a net result to-day, and especially in Egypt, the citadel of the Mohammedan religion, and the cultural centre of the Mo.slem world. The pictures of the young King Farouk I. and Queen Farida and the royal wedding showed the modern trend in Moslem Egypt, and Mr Skeels indicated that the same modern spirit had already permeated every department of Egypt’s national life. After giving a brief account of the spread and decline of. Mohammedan power, Mr Skeels showed many interesting pictures of Egyptian life and customs, while others depicted the development of western influence in the country. Pictures, of the. missions’ activities in the work among the boys of Egypt, in schools, and camps, and again the girls’ schools and classes, the hospital and clinic work, and all the various departments of the work being carried on by the missionaries gave evidence of the extensive nature of the work being carried on by this society. The meeting was closed with prayer and the benediction.