22 Stations in Egypt.

through a native evangelical Church gathered out from the ancient Coptic Church. It has thus made a number of Moslem converts, some of them notable ones. Its most prominent work, however, has been the creation of numerous native congregations, gathered out as described, numbering many thousands of souls. The Mission was first in the field with educational work, and for ~ a long time set a lead to the Government itself. Perhaps its most noticeable feature is the large school and college at Assiout, in Middle Egypt, an institution which has exercised a profound influence on the whole Church. From this college go forth the men who become pastors all over Egypt. The Native Church is self-supporting, and every ordained minister has a voice in its assembly and councils. It has its foreign missionary side too, for the Mission to the heathen tribes on the Sobat River is partly supported by the Native Church in Egypt. The American Mission also has schools in the Khartoum district.

The Egypt General Mission is the outcome of an effort made in 1897 to secure young men to go forth with the special object of village evangelization. Seven young men sailed, and have now established stations in the Eastern Delta, and at Suez. Their work is wholly among Moslems.

The North Africa Mission also works entirely among Moslems.

It has schools and preaching work in Alexandria and Shebeen el Kom (central Delta).

The British and Foreign Bible Society has an agency in Alexandria, and does real missionary work in the colportage which it carries on all over Egypt.

Jewish work is maintained in Alexandria by the Scottish Mission, and in Cairo by the London Jews’ Society.

The Romanists are in large force in Egypt and have some vast establishments, including many excellent schools, with not a few Moslem pupils. But no mission work whatever is attempted by them.

CHAPTER IV.

STATIONS IN EGYPT.

1. Catrro.

THE story of the work at Cairo up to the year 1894 has been sufficiently traced inthe chapter on the Mission in general. Services were then being held regularly in a little chapel, those