The Emissaries of Rome are laboring with sleepless vigilance to win Syria to the Papacy.  Sisters of Charity, Sisters of Nazareth, Jesuits, Lazarists, Capuchins, Dominicans, and Franciscans, monks, nuns and papal legates, are swarming throughout the land.  Though notoriously jealous of each other’s progress, they are always united in their common opposition to the Evangelical faith, and an open Bible.  We have thus not only the old colossal fortresses of Syrian error to demolish, but the new structures of Jesuitical craft to overturn, before Syria comes to Christ.

It has been stated on a preceding page that in 1835, the American wife of an English merchant, Mrs. Alexander Tod, gave a large part of the funds to build the first school-house for girls ever built in Syria.  That substantial union has been happily reproduced in the cordial cooeperation of the Anglo-American and German communities in Beirut, both in the Church, public charities and educational institutions, up to the present time.

Let us all live in Christ, work for Christ, keep our eye fixed on Christ, and we shall be with Christ, and Christ with us!

BRITISH SYRIAN SCHOOLS, 1872.

BEIRUT.

No.  Established.  Name.  Scholars.  Teachers.

1       1860           Training Institution,          92         16
2       1863           Musaitebeh,                    85          3
3       1868           Blind School, men & boys,      16          2
4       1868           Blind girls’ School,           11          1
5       1860           Boys’ School,                  85          5
6       1861           East Coombe,                  120          4
7       1860           Elementary,                    30          2
8       1872           Es-Saifeh,                    100          4
9       1860           Infant School,                125          3
10       1860           Moslem,                        50          4
11       1860           Night School,                ——­          5
12       1863           Olive Branch,                  85          4

DAMASCUS.

13       1867           St. Paul’s,                   170          6
14       1869           Blind School,                  15          1
15       1870           Medan,                         80          2
16       1867           Night School,                  30          1

LEBANON.

17       1863          Ashrafiyeh,                   53          3
18       1868          Ain Zehalteh,                 50          2
19       1869          Aramoon,                      40          2
20       1863          Hasbeiya,                    160          3
21       1867          Mokhtara,                   ——­       ——­
22       1868          Zahleh,                       75          4

TYRE.

23 1869 Girls’ School, 50 2
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          Totals, 1522 79
          Bible Women, 7