Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1948 — Page 8

.onverts Are Nil fis Make Life Miserable for Those Desert Islam for Christianity ~~

American woman 7861 injections and : / American Mission Hospital here last year, but failed to make a single convert to Christianity. In fact, Dr. Mary B. Allison of Milwaukee tells me, fewer than a dozen persons have been converted since the mission was

founded in 1890 by the Reformed | (Dutch) Church of Ame: i

"impossible, nev- > ertheless, for any of their

4:5 tians are no longer ‘considered 1 traitors. | i 4 The single Arab Christian re-| maining in Kuwait is an old man who operates the mission's Bible shop in"the center of the bazaar. Ostracism

Fear Kuwaitis continue to buy Bibles, tracts and religious maga-| 3 zines, says Dr. Allison, but for 3 years no one has dared to be1 come a Christian for fear of being ostracized. At the same time, no one ob-| jects to being treated at the mission hospital, even if he or she

brief sermon, in addition to paying a nominal sum in cash. The mission operates two self-| supporting hospitals, one for women and one for men. The ¥ women's hospital is the more important, however, for the Kuwait Oil Company operates two male aospitals and the government nas established several male :linics. There are no female Arab doc‘ors as yet, and indeed the only male doctors—in Kuwait or anywhere else in Arabia—are Egyptians. The Shaikh intends to employ an American surgeon to lead his Egyptian staff when the 208pital is completed in the fall. Kuwait women prefer to be treated by Dr. Allison, or even jer male American colleague, Dr. Maurice Huesinkveld ~— Infidels hough they are—rather than vio-| late Purdah completely by ex-| sosing their bodies to male mem-| bers pf the Mohammedan faith, Smells of Shark Oil Dr. Allison's hospital stank of] shark liver oil, which had been ‘ubbed into the furniture and

an “It's all very irregular,” Dr. Allison, laughingly admits. “They

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simply refuse to be treated unless their families are taken in, too.” - Dr. Allison still trys to get the ‘imothers of sickly babies to give their children a: least one egg a day. But most of them refuse to ido so, on the ground that children sholild drink only mother’s milk— : even when it isn’t adequate—-and Sect of Is- © i that eggs are only for adults. pp gt ot.1s-, ; ; She also has trouble keeping 'e tolerant ? iF her patients clean. Many women, ore y especially widows, are content to !remain dirty to demonstrate their, I virtue, { , Copyright 1948. by The Indianapolis Times

Mr White LEBANON, Mar. 19—The annumber who re- . nual summer camp for Boy naumess-histop har faith. 0. be-|gcouts of the Boone district will e a . , ibe held at Camp Rotary, CrawAll but one of the mission's sorggyviile, from July 11 to 24. converts have been forced to emi- prog Carson, district executive, grate to Basra, Iraq, where Chris- |... ore than 100 will attend from Boone County.

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