Stations in Egypt. 23 on Sunday and Thursday evenings being evangelistic in character ; at a Bible and Book Depot in one of the principal thoroughfares, outside which a chained New Testament was in frequent use, such books as Sweet Firstfruits, The Beacon of Truth, and The Apology of Al Kindy, all written by Christian converts from Islam, were meeting with a ready sale; a boys’ school was being carried on; a girls’ school, just removed to Bab-el-Luk so as to enable boarders to be accommodated, had eighty-five names (including those-of day-boarders) on its roll; while visits were being paid to an ever-increasing number of homes. As a result of the evangelistic meetings one or two persons came forward as inquirers, and perhaps on that account two sheikhs from Al Azhar organized opposition, sending a band of roughs, armed. with sticks, to make a disturbance. Matters at length reached such a pitch that appeal had to be made to the authorities, who caused it to be known that order must not be disturbed on the mission-premises.

Fruit of evangelistic Meetings.

In the early months of 1899 the meetings were very encouraging. The hall in which they were held was often overcrowded, and though it frequently happened that the entire Mohammedan audience rose and trooped out into the street, called thereto by some one who urged all who loved Mohammed to show their devotion by leaving the meeting, it was not long before the hall filled up again. A goodly number of people remained to the after-meetings and asked questions concerning Christianity. Inquirers began to come forward more often, a class for catechumens was set on foot, and in 1900 two men were baptized, one a sheikh and a student in the Azhar, who for some time had been a schoolmaster in the suburbs of Cairo, and the other a man of Persian and Syrian parentage who had been a pupil in some of the C.M.S. schools in Palestine. Indeed, so much interest was being taken in the evangelistic meetings, and the Book Depot was attracting so many purchasers, that the authorities of Al Azhar issued orders that the students were not to attend the meetings or frequent the Book Depot, Persecution, too, was directed against the converts and inquirers, and led some of those who were under instruction to fall away.

School Converts.

Fruit was also reaped about this time at the Girls’ Boarding-