I had hardly been preaching in Arabic a year, when Mr.Bird left for America.

Mr.Thomson had but just preached his first sermon when my family was broken up, and I became a wanderer.

Since then, we have both been here together but a few months at a time, until the last year.

And these are all the Arabic preachers we have had at our station.

In the mean time we have all been away, once for nearly two years at Malta, and again for a while at Cyprus.