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Title: Missionary, Visitor, The (1907)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Brethren's General Missionary and Tract Committee
Subjects: Church of the Brethren Priodicals Church of the Brethren- Missions
Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House
Contributing Library: Bridgewater College, Alexander Mack Memorial Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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one of the circum-stances in Persian homes that seemsmost awful to a Christian woman, andwhenever a discussion arises as to thecomparative merits of the Miohammedanand Christian religions, the women, how-ever bigoted, have nothing to say in de-fense of the law that gives their hus-bands the right to bring other wives intotheir home. They look at us with eyesof envy when they learn that no illness,no failure to bear sons, and no loss ofbeauty can give our husbands the rightto send us adrift. Do they ever hunger for somethingelse? Yes, indeed. How often they pourinto our ears their longings for some-thing better, or sigh as they say: Ourlives are so different! You are free andhappy and can read and know things.Thank God, there are some here andthere in Persia who are beginning to re-alize that our message of glad tidingsmay be even for them, who gladly wel-come our calls and eagerly ask, Didyou bring the Book? The more one grows into this work ofwatching to win souls and comes into ill
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The Surrey personal contact with these women, themore one realizes the depth of theirneed and the seemingly impregnablewalls of their religion. Looked at froma human standpoint, it would seem im-possible to break down these barriers,—what but Gods almighty power can doit?—Womans Work. A FORWARD MOVE IN NORTHDAKOTA. By Joel A. Vancil.(Continued from Page 95.)(b) By conducting missionary pro-grams. 2. To organize Missionary ReadingCircles.and Mission Study classes. 3. To distribute tracts, introduceBrethren publications and to aid the mis-sions in organizing Sunday schools andChristian Workers meetings. 4. To solicit and enlist young peopleto give themselves to the cause of Christand missions. 5. To solicit and receive pledges and bequests from individuals, for the pur-pose of training (in biblical knowledge),sending and supporting one or more mis-sionaries on the foreign field. 7. To support only and all such in-terests in missions as are in harmonywith the rules of the Brethren ch

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