Egypt and the Christian crusade . ai organization in 1895, becomes, inthis period, a more extensive, as well as a morecomplex, organization. On Feb. 22, 1899, thefifty organized congregations and the 165 sta-tions, together embracing 6515 members, untilthen constituting but one presbytery,—the Pres-bytery of Egypt,—were divided into four pres-byteries, the Presbyteries of Thebes, of Assiut,of Middle Egypt, and of the Delta. On May11th, these again were organized into the Synodof the Nile. Since 1899, the number of organ-ized congregations has increased still further andthe membership has advan
Egypt and the Christian crusade . ai organization in 1895, becomes, inthis period, a more extensive, as well as a morecomplex, organization. On Feb. 22, 1899, thefifty organized congregations and the 165 sta-tions, together embracing 6515 members, untilthen constituting but one presbytery,—the Pres-bytery of Egypt,—were divided into four pres-byteries, the Presbyteries of Thebes, of Assiut,of Middle Egypt, and of the Delta. On May11th, these again were organized into the Synodof the Nile. Since 1899, the number of organ-ized congregations has increased still further andthe membership has advanced fifty per presbyterial divisions grew out of evan-gelistic districts which had been created for thebetter administration of home missionary noble pedigree for any Presbytery to enjoy,and a proper reminder of the true purpose of allchurch j^ educatioual work, we discover that this de-**^ion. partment has grown to such an extent, that wenow have a great network of schools, enrolling. ASSIUT COLLEGE Stable and Yard where School was Begun Present Main Colleg-e Buildmg Recent Missionary Work 193 over jfifteen thousand scholars. The significanceof these figures may be inferred from the fact,that the enrolment in all regular governmentschools for the same year was 18,712. We alsofind these schools, graded, unified, correlated, sothat each adds to its own prestige and power, theprestige and power of this entire missionaryeducational movement. We also find this important department of theMissions work, to a great extent self-support-ing, paying some sixty per cent, of the entireexpenses of its operation. We find at the head of it a college, Assiut Col-lege, with some seven hundred students drawnfrom over a hundred towns and villages, chieflyfrom Upper Egypt, yet there is a representationfrom thirteen of the fourteen Provinces of thecountry. We find the students of this College every-where, from Alexandria to the farthest outpostsof the S
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