THE LAND OF NILE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 828, 28 May 1910, Page 10

THE LAND OF NILE.

LECTURE BY MR. W. BRADLEY.

A large audience was crowded into St. John's Schoolroom on Thursday.to heir Mr. W. Bradley, of the Egypt General Mission, deliver a lantern lecture on "The Land of the Pharaohs." The liev. Dr. Gibb presided. The lecturer described Egypt as _ a country of wonders —wonderful for its great river, for its wealth, for its cultivation, its spiritual blessings and promises, and its commanding geographical position. Egypt had never before had such prosperity or such successful government as during tho last twenty-eight years, under British rule, and now all that was needed was to give them the Gospel. Among tho pictures shown was a photograph of tho Pharaoh of the Oppression, taken from his mummy in tho Cairo Museum —a curious and not very pleasant face. Tho pyramids, tho sphinx, Pompey's Pillar, and many other monumental wonders of Egypt wore shown on the screen to an accompaniment of bright and informing comment. A picture of tho courtyard of a great Moslem University was tho first of a series, which served the lecturer as texts for a forciblo characterisation of Mohammedanism as a religion whicli degrades woman, and is accompanied always with poverty and oppression. Tho story of the Egypt General Mission from its inception in a small prayer meeting and tho going out of tho original band of seven, down to tho present clay, with twenty-three mission workers' in the Land of Nile, was next told. Ono of the principles of tho mission was not to go into debt. They prayed, and put tho needs of the work before Christian people, and had always had enough funds to carry on. Views of Bolbois, in Lower Egypt, where Mr. Bradley lias laboured for soino years, were scanned with interest, which was heightened by the lecturer's vivid narrative of some of the incidents of the work. The hard lives of women under Mohammedanism were pathetically described, and the lecturer concluded with a solemn appeal for help for tho Egypt General Mission. Tho thanks of the- meeting to the lecturer woro expressed by tho chairman.