The sorrow and hope of the Egyptian Sudan; a survey of missionary conditions and methods of work in the Egyptian Sudan (1913) (14780061254)

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Title: The sorrow and hope of the Egyptian Sudan; a survey of missionary conditions and methods of work in the Egyptian Sudan
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Watson, Charles R. (Charles Roger), 1873-1948
Subjects: United Presbyterian Church of North America Missions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., The Board of the foreign missions of the United Presbyterian church of North America
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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icine which the paper called for. The drinking of native beer is a great and preva-lent curse. The amounts consumed are sometimes enor-mous. A woman patient in replying to a question saidthat she could drink nearly a bucketful (two gallons)at one sitting; and a man who complained of dyspepticsymptoms said that he drank two bucketfuls every day. Life in and around Khartum is on the whole ona very bad level. Political exigencies seem to forbidthe employment of the only force by which it is possiblefor a people to be regenerated; and the forces em-ployed, while sufficient to transform a waste of ruinsinto a well-ordered city with many splendid buildingsand beautiful gardens, and to make smartly dressed,well-drilled soldiers out of naked savages, are not pow-erful enough to change the beastly character developedby generations of excess. Practices and diseases which it is a shame evento mention are common, and both Sudanese and Egypt-ians are regulating the size of their families. Practic-
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§ I ■3 I CD g 3 a as THE MESSAGE OF HOPE 177 ally all of the Sudanese women pass through the dang-ers of confinement without any help worthy of thename. They suffer without much complaint, perhaps,because they consider suffering their appointed lot. Ig-norance, carelessness, and vice work havoc among thechildren. Pitiful little skeletons are often brought to theclinic for whom apart from good nursing and properfood there can be no hope. The needs of women and children are particu-larly great. It must always be so where Islam rules.The women of respectable families are, for the mostpart, rigidly secluded and must pass the greater partof their lives within the narrow confines of their homes.There is not sufficient data on hand from which to makea forecast but it is highly probable that the needs ofwomen and children will occupy a large place in ourhospital of the future. Those who have labored in the Northern Sudanmission field are the following: The Rev. J. K.Giffen, D. D., and Mrs.