The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-04-25

r!ac" in the world. but nevertheless
! il must be just a lit strange. rs
pecially when you're the only Amcri'
can children in Il city uf 10000
couple OF hundred miles up the Nile;
! The only small Americans among the
/ l,75O. 900 people in your fathers mis-
sion district that 235 mile stretch OF
river valley between the desert hills
south os Cairo. So it's kind Of hard
10 visualize all these Ohio things.
What the Work Is.
Mr.. and Mrs Henderson ara two or
| he 10 Americans not including
| children ar" maintained IN
I Egypt by the American Omitted Tres
! hyterinnl Mission, which for nearly
I 60 years, with scores OF lives and NIL
lions OF dollars. through schools, col
| 'cSes aud preaching. has been ell
! dcavorinE 70 establish spiritual ma
I tive church. Today it has l2,U9p
pupils In ISL schools. ranging from
| tiny places IN villages 10 the great
! COLLEGE with TOO students at Assault III
! MI!dle Egypt; it has Two hospitals
which provide 5000 treatments Il
year: it has produced an Evangelical
church with 90 Egyptian ministers in
organized congregations and loO
, Egyptian evangelistS. men and Wo'
men. with more than 10000 adher'
cnts. Il reaches. through its schools
! and otherwise, virtually every section
OF Egyptian society, Mohammednn,
; Oriental Christian and EvanSellcal'
: Wh"rrvcr one travels along the Nile
h. w!ll meet, in responsible positions,
the products OF mission training. The
percentage Of literacy IS higher
! among the EvanCcliCals, the Mission
adherentS. than in any other religious
! group of Egyptians. The wor:. Is
, expanding so rapidly that the tisSion
! is cnGravorinC to obtain 200 more
doctors, teachers. business men ana
preachers.
From three 10 - Americans are
stationed in each OF the dozen largest
cities and towns. Not only do tbeE
work in these cities but by train
automobile, motorcycle. bicycle, dana
bi"oh or huuseboat, and in private
railway car they visit the hundreds OF
surrounding villages or direct in them
1 the efforts OF Egyptian evanGe'istS.
An Exciting Experience.
, On" q: these cities is Benz Suef.
! which means Sons vi the Swords. In
I /. the lTendrrsons have lived for sew
rral years. Here also is school FOR
girls. and what il means in coun-
| Try where thc census average OF III
eracy amcnS womcn IS III l,9Vu can
be imagined.
1t was IN Benz Sue. that the Hen.
icrSsns hal one OF their most exclt'
iNg experiences. II was In 1919. when
political disturbances swept the coun'
try from III" Mediterranean TO the
Sudan. NiUtrg broke out. Friends
brought word thai the apartment
house i'll which the missionaries lived
Vas to be burned--thouGh not be-
cause Ct tho Americans. FOR all Ameri'
cans Were quite popular at the time.
4 grUGEc against the owner Of the
house. who also occupied an apart.
ment in it. was responsible Tor the
threat. The warning was just III
time. Hastily tho missionaries re-
moved their furniture and. little
later, We're taken TO Cairo with the
o1hc: Foreigners aboard British mill
tary boat. They departed in great
haste, with virtually no belongings.
md ia Cairo for time were forced
to live ~ were many OF the MISSION
refugees from IN country stations
he rntir" family in Just one room IN
the Missions biz central building
across the street from Shepherds
hotel. Tho Deni Suef house wasn't
burned. after all, hut tho friendly
warning had come just in time. a mob
hyuR" into the place and smashed all
the landlords furniture, deliberately
k,cr'.t,," even the piano to pieces.
key h. key.
Fuur YEAR before, rnroutG to Egypt.
The lan.uy had experienced another
thriller. Their boat WIS only short
distance uut IrrH Ntw York when 1t
caught FIRE. For hours and hours the
crew fought The flames. but at last the
urd.r To abandon ship had 10 be
given a transfer by small boat was
, made, oc In,n. wrmcn and children 10
. IN lltbliT iIH'i, anu 'ii' ii''''' 'N''N
found themselves back in New York.
Every BIT Of their luggage was at IN"
bottom uf the sea. In couple o.
laws iEry managed to collect has
.ilv cLos,n uut.t and again were en-
route 10 the east
A Mohammedan District.
When M Mcpherson first came out
10 Egypl he was assigned TO Tanta,
city of 1000 persons the third cit!
N Egypt and geographical center OF
/ ;he Delta. that fertile triangle more
, than 4 hundred miles TO the side, al
the corners OF which are Alexandria,
| Port Said and Cairo. Tanta has a
! famous mosque. and It was estimated
that more pilgrims annually visited II
than went to Mecca itself. In Tanta
:kr Mission has q girls school,
raining school for Bible women,
i congrc@o tiuI hospital and e boys
: school II : in the heart OF an IN,
! rcusely Mohammedan district, where
the children wear charms 70 keep OH
the evil eve" and the women carry
food To the grarerarIs every wceh 10
aprraSa the evil spirits. The beGrars
who dine On 'hcse offerings are imam.
iuuuSlv n favor Of the latter custom.
Henderson had first come to ES\pt
an 1915 About four years later h"