At Bishop Gobat’s school we were kindly received, and given a good, refreshing drink.  The founder of this school, a member of the English church, was one of the pioneers in Jerusalem mission work, and stood very high in the estimation of the people.  His grave is to be seen in the cemetery near the school, where one may also see the supposed site of the ancient city wall.  Besides the Leper Hospital, we visited another hospital under German control, where patients may have medical attention and hospital service for the small sum of one mejidi, about eighty cents, for a period, of fifteen days, but higher fees are charged in other departments.  We soon reached the English hospital, maintained by the Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews.  It is built on a semi-circular plan in such a way that the wards, extending back from the front, admit light from both sides.  This institution is free to the Jews, but I understand Mohammedans were not admitted without a fee.

The Syrian Orphanage had about three hundred children in it, who were being instructed in books and in manual labor.  Those who can see are taught to work in wood, to make a kind of tile used in constructing partitions, and other lines of useful employment.  They had some blind children, who were being taught to make baskets and brushes.  On the way back to Mr. Smith’s I stopped at the Jewish Library, a small two-story building, having the books and papers upstairs.  They have a raised map of Palestine, which was interesting to me, after having twice crossed the country from sea to sea.

The last Thursday I was in the city I went with some friends to the Israelite Alliance School, an institution with about a thousand pupils, who receive both an industrial and a literary education.  We were conducted through the school by a Syrian gentleman named Solomon Elia, who explained that, while the institution is under French control, English is taught to some extent, as some of the pupils would go to Egypt, where they would need to use this language.  The boys are instructed in wood-working, carpentry, copper-working, and other lines of employment.  We saw some of the girls making hair nets, and others were engaged in making lace.  Both of these products are sent out of Palestine for sale.  The institution has received help from some of the Rothschild family, and I have no doubt that it is a great factor for the improvement of those who are reached by it.  Jerusalem is well supplied with hospitals and schools.  The Greek and Roman Catholic churches, the Church of England, and numerous other religious bodies have a footing here, and are striving to make it stronger.  Their schools and hospitals are made use of as missionary agencies, and besides these there is a Turkish hospital and numerous Mohammedan schools.