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Show HARD TIMES IN ASIA DESCRIBED E. B. Snell Relates Missionary Mission-ary Experiences in Egypt and Orient. "We hear people talk of hard times, but in Utah we know nothing noth-ing about hard times as compared with the people who live in Egypt, Arbcnia, Assyria and in eastern Germany," said E. B. Snell. seminary semin-ary teacher of the Springville seminary, sem-inary, before the M. I. A. conjoint meeting of the four wards of Springville, Spring-ville, held in the Springville Opera House, Sunday evening September 7. Mr. Snell in relating his recent missionary experiences in these countries, described the people of Egypt, as being in a state of most abject poverty, degradation, filth and ignorance. In the city of Cario children are sent into the streets by their parents to beg money of the tourists, he said. Palestine and the Orient, he said only differ from Egypt in that the cities are larger and there are more people. "People in these places work from 4 o'clock in the morning until sun down at night for ten and twenty cents a day," he said, "and the only food they have is unleaven bread, grapes and cheese." In describing the conditions in Armenia Ar-menia he said, "most of the buildings build-ings in the cities are constructed out of lime stone and in quarrying the limestone from the mountains, large caves are made. These caves are inhabited by hundreds of people whose only clothing is a piece of burlap bur-lap and scores of them may be seen lying on the floors of the cave, sick with materia fever," Mr. Snell described the semi-barbarian semi-barbarian war-fare which constantly goes on between the Mohamedans and the Christians as something of a most torturous nature. In Germany where he visited shortly at teh the war, he said people had nothing to eat but rye bread and coffee and while the war was on they had lived for months on beets, mangles and cabbage, without any fats of any kind except a little rye bread. The Germans are the most hospitable people in the world he said. In an interesting manner he told of his visit to the wonderful and splendid art galleries in Germany. Ger-many. Earl Hutchings of the Secoud ward was in charge of the meeting. A ladies chorus composed of the Misses Vilnah Goldsbrough, Mary Wainwrisrhf. Clara Clvde. Vivian Harrison, Vesta Anderson, Clara Brihghurst and Leona Gunmundson, under the direction of Miss Alzada Wilmot, gave a selection. Miss Jane Alleman on the piano and Prof. W:n. L. Miller on the violin acted as accompanists, ac-companists, Byard Johnson offered the invocation and Elmo Coffman the benediction. |