The sorrow and hope of the Egyptian Sudan; a survey of missionary conditions and methods of work in the Egyptian Sudan . n stock arrived, we estimated the value inmoney and durra, and announced it openly. If theseller agreed (and it was a rare exception that he didnot), we offered the buyer the animal at the cashvalue of the durra. The buyers were as well pleased asthe sellers, and all parties usually went away tried to give the people the grain as near cost aspossible, and still not run too great a risk of goinginto debt, and thus largely prevented the Mohammedantraders from taking a
The sorrow and hope of the Egyptian Sudan; a survey of missionary conditions and methods of work in the Egyptian Sudan . n stock arrived, we estimated the value inmoney and durra, and announced it openly. If theseller agreed (and it was a rare exception that he didnot), we offered the buyer the animal at the cashvalue of the durra. The buyers were as well pleased asthe sellers, and all parties usually went away tried to give the people the grain as near cost aspossible, and still not run too great a risk of goinginto debt, and thus largely prevented the Mohammedantraders from taking advantage of them in their ex-tremity. They were angry at us, however, and peti-tioned the Government to stop our trading with thepeople; but their petition failed of its object. TheGovernor of the province reported to the central Gov-ernment that we had done them a favor rather than aninjury. 1 Efforts to give the young boys and girls some-thing of a practical and literary education com-bined have been attended with great difficulty. 1Since this time the Government has forbidden such reliefmeasures by Mr. Roosevelt at Doleib Steamer Approaching Young Men at Khartum. THE MESSAGE OF HOPE 169 Prizes were offered for regular attendance. Les-sons in sewing were given to the Medical Work: In 1910, Mr. Roosevelt visited Medical work,the station at Doleib Hill on his way down theNile. A few days later in a public address atKhartum, he said: I stopped a few days ago at the little Mission RoosevelfgStation on the Sobat. One of the things that struck me Testimony,there was what was being done by the medical side ofthat mission. There were about thirty patients whowere under the charge of the mission doctor. Patientshad come in to be treated by the mission doctors fromplaces 125 miles distant. I do not know a better typeof missionary than the doctor who comes out here andgives his whole heart to the work and does his workwell. He is doing
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