Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-18
DANGER PROM FANATICS

| Missionaries from this Locality Threat
ened IN Egypt.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch, OF yesterday,
| has an interesting article on the subject OF
| the dangerous situation of American mis-
sionaries at Asyoot and upper Egypt gen.
orally. Peculiar interest attaches to these
missionaries because they all belong TO this
immediate neighborhood, and especially 10
st. Clairsville. The kilograms of Sunday,
saw that all of the missionary posts Of
Egypt are in great danger from the Moslem
fanatics.
AT AsYooT.
Though the telegraph dispatches give
the name as Stout, the resident missfena-
ries call il Asyoot, and it is thus known in
the records Of the U. P. Board of Missions.
This station is ABOUT one hundred and fifty
miles up the Nile from Cairo. DR.. John
HCgg, ID. D., is at the head OF the Asyoot
Mission and has been in the Egyptian field
for q period of twenty years or more. He
is SCo'chman and went out in 1862. Rev.
J. r. Alexander is an American, and is q
native of St. Clairsville. He has been in the
mission field for about five wears. Rev. j.
r. Glffen is also from st. Clairsville. He
was a student at Westminster College, New
Wilmington, Pa, and after finishing his
course was assigned the Egyptian mission
field. Miss NJ. s. Mckown is well known
in Pittsburgh. She was there on a visit
something over year ago. Her home is at
Elizabeth, Pa, where she has mother and
sister residing, though her father has
located in Kansas.
The fact that these ladies and gentlemen
are so we'll known in and around Pitts
burgh has added to the general interest
telt in their behalf. They have within the
psst two years passed through a succession
of troubles. When the Egyptian war
broke out they were compelled to seek
safety on the American and English ships
at Cairo, and for months were excluded by
the hostilities from returning to their
various fields OF labor. This last trouble
threatens to be as serious as the former.
SKETCH OF THE FIELD.
At Asyoot there is girls boarding and
day school, which is under the care OF Miss
Newlin. 1t is supply depot for the ma
tive villages abound, the girls as fast as
they become proficient being sent out as
teachers and native missionaries. In ad-
ditlon to this there is training college.
In the esrlv part OF this year it had an at.
tendance of 10 in the academical depart
m,ni and over one hundred in the pre-
uQratuiy. OF the - native teachers en-
pluyed IN the evangelical schools OF Egypt,
~ OIL tltnl nave rPCelNeu tntlT lIaihIuS at
this sci col. There is also a new college
building. the first story of which was oc-
CO pied for the first time few weeks ago,
with 40 boys in the dormitories, there
Geiue l5u hCarders and an attendance OF
over @uU pupiis per day.
The above is brief outline sketch OF the
mission school at Asy DOT, which is one OF
he most promising in Egypt. There are
10 schools, the ourgrowth of the mission
sci ooIs. under United Presbyterian super
vision in Egypt. OF these 80 are self sus-
talning, the remainder being assisted out
Of the funds IF the board. The total cost
IF the schools during the last fiscal year
IVES s.. Sos and Of this amount only $40
was contributed by the Mission Board.
The training school, however cost during
the year $1,000, OF which nearly 5000
came from the UNCONVENTIONAL treasury.
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