30 Stations in Egyft.

seen without a Gospel in his hand. Those who were with him constantly had many interesting conversations with him, and it was a great delight to them to teach so earnest a listener.

‘Miss Sells told him one day that the hospital was opened to extend the knowledge of Christ even more than for the healing of bodily diseases, as we considered the preaching of the Gospel was the most important thing in the world. To this he replied, “But what about those outside? How can they hear?” By the time Sheikh —— asked the question I have quoted, he seemed to be a true believer in Christ as the Son of God, and confessed so to Miss Sells on the last Sunday that he was in the hospital, saying, ‘‘ How can I but believe now that I have read the Book?” ‘ But you didn’t believe when you first came here ; you were like the Mohammedans outside who refuse to believe in Jesus.” To this he answered, ‘Ah, but then I hadn’t seen your Book; they would believe, too, if they had read that.” When he left us he carried his Book with him, that he might continue reading it in his village, which was far away from the hospital.

‘Since he left us, three men from the same place have come to be healed of bodily disease, and each one has asked for a Book “ like Sheikh —— had.” A fourth man came solely and simply for the Book’s sake, and not for bodily treatment. He was given the Sermon on the Mount, which is published as a separate little book, and at once began to read it.’

A former Patient baptized.

There have been instances, too, of definite conversions, so far as man can tell. One young girl, who died after leaving the hospital, when spoken to about the Lord Jesus on the day before she passed away, declared, ‘He is my Beloved.’ In 1908 an Egyptian lad, a former patient, after enduring some. rough handling because of his forsaking Islam, was baptized, and one of the native workers at the hospital was under instruction for baptism at the end of the year; while the reports tell of an old man whom it was impossible to cure, who remarked before he left for his village, ‘Anyway, I am trusting in Jesus’; and of another who prayed with his dying breath to Christ—an almost certain sign of true conversion, since the Mohammedan makes a great point when his end is near of repeating the formula, ‘ There is no God but one God, and Mohammed is the prophet of God.’