EGYPT GENERAL MISSION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18675, 3 October 1922, Page 8

EGYPT GENERAL MISSION

ANNUAL MEETING. The South Island branch of the Egypt General Mission has its headquarters in Dunedin, and the annual meeting took place in the View Street Hall last evening. The Rev. G. Thornton occupied the chair, and conducted opening devotional exercises. Miss M. J. Gairdncr, secretary of the mission, preseufing a report on the year s work, said that the year appeared to have been an uneventful one. She welcomed Mr A. Bradley, of the mission staff, and expressed the earnest desire that Ins visit to the dominion would bo greatly blessed. She referred to the invisible but vitally important work being earned out by the prayer organised in connection with the mission. The financial statement for the South Island for the year ending June 6U last showed that the year began with a credit balance of £66 19s 4d the Jota! iccoipts amounting to £290 7s Id. ihe year closed with £5 18s 5d in hand The auxiliary had again prepared and sent away some boxes of useful gifts to the missionaries on the field. She read extracts from letters returning grateful thanks for the gifts received. , . , Mr L. Cook, in moving Ihe adoption ot the report and balance sheet, said that the balance sheet marked progress for which they had cause to be thankful. He expressed the wish that more members would attend the monthly meetings for prayer, and paid & tribute to the work ot the secretary. The motion was carried . , The Chairman, in introducing Mr Brad. Icy, referred to the unbounded hospitality shewed to the New Zealand troops by agents of the Egypt General Mission. Mr Bradley spoke of the close and happy fellowship that existed between the staff on the field and the workers in the same cause at the home base. Ihe highest contribution they could make to any missionary cause was 'faithful, persistent, believing prayer He referred to about a dozen men who hud devoted themselves to mission work in various lands as a result of their contact with mission work m Egypt % war. The Egypt General Mission had built a dispensary With money civcn to it as a thank-offering from the estate left by a fine young Australian soldier who was killed during the war.. The last few years.had been very trying ones m Egypt- *aa a slroiut anti-British feeling, and the cry was “Egypt for the Egyptians,” but unfortunately there was no driving force in Iho Egyptians and they were unable to govern themselves. Yot iu «U the unrest sud violence that had taken place none oi their missionaries had even, beeu .nsu rd and none-of their property interfered with. In spite of the financ.a depression the mission‘had not had to retrench at ah. ' Dic e were six or seven new workeis ready to go out now, and that would mean an add,f°on of 13 to the staff within two years. During the year they had undertaken a special evangelistic campaign by boat, and had met with a remarkable response. Tie read extracts from various reports showing the eagerness with , which the Gmpel message had been received m the villages.