Emphasis Preaching Journal

Some years ago, there was a medical missionary who served in Egypt. He was perplexed that many of the people he loved and served there suffered from a life-sapping anemia. All of his efforts to treat this disease failed. Finally, he learned that the anemia was caused by a parasitic flatworm, known as a liver fluke. These flukes lived in the soil of the riverbank along the Nile, and got into people's systems through the water.