Strange Customs of Palestine Told by Visitor—Curiosity of Natives One of Aids to Conversion.

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Dr. E. V. Jago, missionary to Palestine, is in Fort Worth to show his brethren the great opportunities that political and religious unrest is creating for the Christian missonary in foreign lands. Since Thursday Dr. Jago, assisted by U. S. Lewis of Atlanta, vice president of the Christian Alliance, has been holding conferences at the First Congregational Church.

Sunday afternoon at 3:30 at the Congregational Church he will speak on the “Development of Prophecy and the Signs of the Times.” This will be the most significant of his series of lectures delivered in Fort Worth. “There is a great stirring of social and religious thought throughout the world,” said Dr.

Jago Friday afternoon, “and this is responsible for the opening of the missionary fields as never before. The heathen systems of religion are on the wane, and the people are looking for something to take their place. Western Ideals Sought. “They are looking with most longing eyes toward Christianity.

Western ideals and Western civilization are being sought as never before. The Christian Missionary Alliance, of which I am a worker, believes that the crucial time for the advance on heathen religions has come. This organization is trying to arouse the churches of this country to an interest in the situation.”

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"Strange Customs of Palestine Told by Visitor—Curiosity of Natives One of Aids to Conversion.," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 February 1914. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1914-003. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1914-003