Name: The First American Mission to Afghanistan
Author: E. M. Wherry

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E. M. Wherry, The First American Mission to Afghanistan (1918)

“ He who would undertake the glorious task of giving the Afghans the beginning of a real literature, of a Christian literature, who would undertake to translate the Bible for them, would first have to ascertain the most prevalent, the purest, intrinsically and extrinsically the most worthy, the best understood dialect, and not rest satisfied with translating into the language of the frontier. Frontier dialects are always mongrel and inferior. ”

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E. M. Wherry, The First American Mission to Afghanistan (1918)

“ There seems to be a period in the history of every nation, when prose cannot live, when the distinction between prose and poetry is unknown, and the instructors of a people can only speak to them in measured language ”

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E. M. Wherry, The First American Mission to Afghanistan (1918)

“ Let them be able to handle a gun, for often their dinner will depend upon their skill as sportsmen; and an Afghan respects an armed man much more than an unarmed one. Let them possess some knowledge of medicine and carry with them a good supply of the commonest remedies. And finally, to their love of souls and zeal for God, they must add an entire willingness to lay down their lives ; and that not merely in that general sense in which missionaries are said to go forth with their lives in their hands ”

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E. M. Wherry, The First American Mission to Afghanistan (1918)

“ The vernaculars of Afghanistan differ greatly, so that a man who speaks Pashtu in one quarter can hardly understand the people in another. For this reason it was most important that the translation of the Bible should be made in that dialect which could be used by at least a considerable number of people. Mr. Loewenthal constantly yearned for an opportunity to travel in Afghanistan. ”

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E. M. Wherry, The First American Mission to Afghanistan (1918)

“ Loewenthal led the American Missionaries to abandon their mission to the Afghans. The Church Missionary Society, with which he had co-operated continued the work. Mr. Loewenthal's manuscripts and much of his library were made over to the missionaries of Peshawur. His Uterary work culminating in the translation of the New Testament into Pashtu, remain as a memorial to his service in the Army of the Lord. "He being dead yet speaketh." ”

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E. M. Wherry, The First American Mission to Afghanistan (1918)

“ They must be able to stand the scorching sun and the stifling simoon, as well as intense cold; they must be able to make daily marches of from 25 to 30 miles either on foot or on camels, as water is scarce; and they could not well travel except with caravans of merchants, who do not make such long marches; they must be willing to live for weeks with no other protection from atmospheric influences but the canvas walls and roof of their tents ”

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E. M. Wherry, The First American Mission to Afghanistan (1918)

“ The peculiar nature of the difficulties with which this mission for some time to come will have to contend, appears to demand two men at least, of robust health and strong constitution; health and constitution that have been tried and found full weight; with mind not dried up in the study and spirits not evaporated by high pressure ”

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E. M. Wherry, The First American Mission to Afghanistan (1918)

“ Viewing the peculiar nature of this enterprise it is impossible to resist the conviction how entirely the work of missions is the work of the Lord. He must appoint the men for it; He must endue them with the needed qualifications ”

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