General Ffistory of the Present-day Mission. 15 Coptic Patriarch, whom he had led to introduce Bible instruction into the theological seminary. But the step could not long be delayed. In 1861 Mr. Lieder’s increasing illness obliged him to retire from all active duties, and in the following year his connexion with the Society was closed, after a period of service lasting thirty-five years, and an absence from Egypt of only one year and a half since he first set foot in the country. He continued to reside at Cairo and died there from cholera in 1865. So ended the first C.M.S. Mission in Egypt.

CHAPTER III. GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PRESENT-DAY MISSION. The Work resumed.

TwENTy-TWo years after Mr. Lieder’s retirement the Society’s work at Cairo was resumed, but with this difference, that whereas formerly the aim of the enterprise had been the enlightenment of the Eastern Churches, the purpose now was the proclamation of the Gospel to the Mohammedans, ‘ whether they would hear, or whether they would forbear.’ Miss M. L. Whately, a daughter of the famous Archbishop of Dublin, had long been carrying on independently a small but interesting work among Mohammedans in Egypt, and her books, showing clearly that even the dark minds of the fellahin were not impervious to the light of the Gospel, had called forth much sympathy from Christian people in England. For some years the C.M.S. had assisted her with small grants of money, and she constantly appealed to the Society to take over her work altogether, and to carry it on more vigorously than she could. On one occasion her appeal was backed by Archbishop Tait, but the expansion of the Missions under the Rey. Henry Wright had been in other directions, and in the later years of his Secretaryship the Committee’s policy was rather one of retrenchment. In 1882, however, in response to a memorial from the Bishop of Gibraltar, Dean Howson of Chester and other friends, it was arranged to send to Cairo the Rey. F. A. Klein, the experienced Palestine missionary and Arabic scholar. He was not now at Jerusalem, but in Germany, engaged in Arabic translations ;