General History of the Present-day Mission. t7 than to serious inquiry. ‘The commonest fellah,’ wrote Klein, ‘feels himself far superior to the most learned Christian from a religious point of view, for he considers hima mushrik or idolater, worshipping three Gods, and pretending that God was born of a woman.’ * Educational and Medical Work begun.

For several years Mr. Klein carried on the work without any Kuropean colleague. He set on foot schools for boys and for girls both in Cairo and Old Cairo, which soon had a goodly number of Mohammedan pupils, and also a school at Gizeh, an hour’s donkey-ride from Cairo, which, however, had to be closed because of intrigue within a couple of years; and he was privileged in 1884 to baptize an Egyptian Mohammedan who had to undergo much persecution, but gave evidence of sincere faith. At length, in 1888, the year of Miss Whately’s death, Mr. Klein was joined by Dr. F. J. Harpur, who had previously been working at Dhala, in Arabia, and in the following year by the Rev. W. F. Connor, of the Palestine Mission. Dr. Harpur opened a dispensary at Old Cairo and another at Cairo, but the latter was closed after a few months, and the former shared its fate in 1890, when the doctor went to Suakin to see how far the famine then raging in the Hastern Soudan presented an opportunity for beginning work among the inhabitants of that district and preparing the way for future advance to Khartoum, He was able to administer relief and minister to the sick, and he opened an orphanage, but the Committee, when they received the reports, did not think that they were justified in undertaking permanent work at Suakin, and Dr. Harpur accordingly returned and resumed his former work at Old Cairo.

Strong Reinforcements.

The time had now come for the Mission to be strongly reinforced. Mrs. and Miss J. B. Bywater, the latter a Mildmay deaconess, joined it at the end of 1890, and in the next year a clergyman, three laymen (one of them a doctor) and five women were added to the foreign staff; but on the other hand, in 1893, Mr. Klein retired from active work, though continuing his literary efforts. For a few years the additions to the staff made but little difference in the amount of work accomplished, for, as one of the new missionaries wrote, ‘none of us are effectives,’ * Tbid., p. 515.