وصف البصرة ومحطّات الإرسالية العربية في الخليج — مجلة المراجعة التبشيرية العالمية (مج٣٥ ع١، يناير ١٩١٢)

من «The Missionary Review of the World»، مج35 ع1 (يناير 1912). مجلّد من «The Missionary Review of the World» — مادة كويتية/خليجية (4 موضع). متوسط الصفحات محل الاقتباس مقصوصة أدناه. سياقات: «…bank of the Tigris River, about a day's journey by river steamer from Busrah, and is an important trading center, with probably 10,000 inhabitants, of which Arabs, Persians, and Turkish officials and soldiers form the bulk. The mission has tried to get a foot- hold in Amara since its earliest days. Kuweit, in northeast Arabia, has also been occupied, and the Dutch doctors were cordially welcomed by its ruler, Sheik Moharak. It is of greatest strategic importance as the future terminus of the overland railway and as the best harbor in the gulf, so that it will make the best possible base for the occupation of the interior of Arabia.…» ◆ «…Kuweit Occupied…» ◆ «…KUWEIT, in Arabia, is a strategic city in that great Mohamme- dan stronghold. Its occupation seemed essential to the faithful mis- sionaries of the Arabian Mission, and Dr. Zwemer, Dr. Thomas, and Rev. Van Ess each tried to gain a foothold. They were refused entrance again and again, and after fifteen years of stri- ving in vain to gain a foothold, they almost despaired of ever occupying it. Wlien Rev. Van Ess was ordered out of the city he went to a little hill just on the border of the town, and there he prayed fervently t تنبيه منهجي: دوريّة تبشيريّة بروتستانتية — تُقرأ نقدياً كشهادة الآخر لا كمرجع محايد. نطاق عام (Internet Archive).