The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

EGYPTLETTER NO. 7.Alexandria, Egypt, March 7, 1912.To the Ecclesia at Chicago, Ill.,U.S.A.Dearly Beloved in the Lord: --WELL, here we are in the land of thePharaohs, the pyramids, and manythings of interest to Bible students.My last letter was from Bombay.From there we steamed for severaldays across the Arabian Sea, stoppeda short time at Aden, at the beginningof the Red Sea (which, by the way, isvery blue), then steamed up to Suez,making quite a long trip of it. As aSunday was spent on the water,Brother Russell addressed a meeting atwhich about eighty of the passengersattended.Eight o'clock here in the morning isabout ten o'clock the night previous withyou. We had a very quiet sea and the bigship moved along at the rate of about335 miles a day. As we traveled along,nearing Suez, we could see the land oneither side; to the left was Arabia, whileto the right we lashed the Peninsula ofSinai, at the southern end of which is