Stations in Egypt. at Ce led to ask for baptism, and a new venture was made by renting a house, formerly occupied for a time in 1882 by Arabi Pasha, for the purpose of conducting weekly meetings in English and Arabic, at which moral, historical, literary and scientific subjects might be discussed, and religious addresses now and again be given. Among those who attended were students of the law and other colleges, of the secondary schools and even of the Azhar ; there were also teachers from the Government schools and a number of the better class of sheikhs. No difficulty whatever was met with in connexion with the meetings occupied with discussions on secular subjects, but the religious gatherings were harder to manage. It was found that the sheikhs would not attend unless the address was followed by a disputation, and the latter frequently ended with the uproarious exit of the whole audience, The Story of Bulus.

On one occasion the leader in the disturbance was a young sheikh, named Mahmood, who had passed all his examinations at Al Azhar and obtained his certificate from his ten professors there. A tract afterwards falling into his hands, he read it and was to some degree influenced in favour of Christianity. Then he began to attend the Sunday evening devotional meetings, and at the close of one of them insisted on seeing one of the missionaries. The latter refused to argue with him, and gave him a New Testament. The young sheikh went home and read the Gospels for twelve hours together. Later on he had a dream in which God told him that he would be guided aright and receive the light and truth for which helonged. Mr. Thornton wrote of him in October, 1905 :— ‘On Saturday last he wrote to the governorate here asking for his name to be legally inscribed as Bulus (Paul), a Christian. The same afternoon he wrote to his father and told him all, and settled in the Old Cairo mission-compound, to secure due protection from might-be enemies and plotters against his life.

‘ Accordingly, on Sunday last, October 8, I admitted him at our Old Cairo church as a catechumen in a very impressive service. So anxious was he to answer that he could scarcely wait till the end of each question. He now gains a livelihood as a teacher of Arabic grammar in the Old Cairo Boys’ School, and gets spiritual help through visiting the hospital patients and