have sent on their gifts from time to time unsolicited, to defray the general expenses of the Institution.  Its support has been to some of us a work of faith, as well as a labor of love.  Not unfrequently has the end of the month come upon us, without one piastre in the treasury for paying the teachers’ salaries or buying bread for the children, when suddenly, in some unknown and unexpected way, funds would be received, sufficient for all our wants.  About two years since the funds were entirely exhausted.  More than a hundred dollars would be owing to the teachers and servants on the following day.  The accounts were examined, and all possible means of relief proposed, but without avail.  At length one of the members of the Executive Committee asked leave to look over the accounts.  He did so, and said he could not find any mention of a sum of about thirty Napoleons, which he was sure he had paid into the treasury several months before, as a donation from Mr. Booth of New York, whose son had died in Beirut.  The money had not been paid into the school treasury.  The vouchers were all produced, and there was left no resort but prayer.  There was earnest supplication that night that the Lord would relieve us from our embarrassment, and provide for the necessities of the school.  The next morning the good brother, above mentioned, recalled to mind his having given that money to Dr. Van Dyck in the Mission Library for the School.  Dr. Van Dyck was consulted, and at once replied, “Certainly I received the money.  It is securely locked up in the safe where it has been for months awaiting orders.”  The safe was opened, and the money found to be almost to a piastre the amount needed for obligations of the School.

Since the transfer of the Syria Mission to the board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church, the pecuniary status of the Seminary has been somewhat modified.  The Women’s Boards of Missions of New York and Philadelphia have assumed the responsibility of raising scholarships for its support among the Auxiliary Societies and Sabbath Schools; the salaries of the teachers are provided for by individuals and churches, and several of the old friends of the school retain their interest in it, while the danger of a deficit is guarded against, by the guarantees of the good Christian women who are doing so grand and noble a work in this age for the world’s evangelization.  The annual cost of supporting a pupil now is about sixty dollars gold.  The number of paying pupils is increasing, and the prospect for the future is encouraging.

In the year 1864, a letter was received from certain Christian women in America, addressed to the girls of the School, and some of the older girls prepared a reply in Arabic, a translation of which was sent to America.  It was as follows: