The Nusairiyeh are described by Dr. H. H. Jessup as patriarch, who died A. D. 7

about

Lebanon, inhabiting the mountains that extend from Antioch to Tripoli. They keep their doctrines secret, and have signs of recognition, like a secret order. Women are not allowed to be initiated, and are meanly esteemed. Polygamy is common, and divorce Occurs at the will of the man. Swearing and lying are universal.

We come now to the nominal Christians of Arab race and tongue. There are first, the Greeks. They are called Greeks, although Arabs by race, simply on account of their religion. They are orthodox members of the Greek Church. They are under the patronage of Russia. They have a patriarch of Antioch and a number of bishops.

There are some

one hundred and fifty thousand of them.

The Jacobites are a small body of dissenters from the Greek Church. They get their name from Jacobus, bishop of Edessa, who died A. D. 578.

The Greek Catholics are converts from the Greek Church to Romanism. They have, however, made few

shin is in their

separate communities. sive population of abou there are regions whe Sometimes, however, th In the north Druses a who also are a mount Greeks They share t

been a number of "battle years."

of the relations came to

Marriage of a Moslem

Girl of Syria.

The following ac-
count is of a Moslem

girl who had been for
several years a pupil
in the mission school
of Miss Arnott at Jaffa.
It was written by one
of the teachers :

I

must tell you about our girl Zeinub.

She is a Moslem and

has been five years in

the school, and is four

She

teen years old.
is one of the twelve
girls of whom I have
had charge and is very
fond of her Bible. One
day her father and
mother came to the
school, and with them
a young man, an old
man, and a woman.
Zeinub's appointed
time in the school
was over, and so they
came to engage her.
The young man was
the bridegroom, and
his uncle and mother
They

came with him.
asked if they could
engage Zeinub.

She

was called into the

room, covered up with

NATIVES OF BETHLEHEM.

the iszar (a white sheet) and the mandeel (a face cover).
Then the bridegroom's uncle asked her, "Who is your
guardian?" She answered,
She answered, "My father," and went
'My father," and went
away. This was all the betrothal. The bridegroom told
Miss Walker that he was going to give Zeinub 10,
paying for her a silk dress, four print dresses, gold
bracelets, gold head-dress, and necklace, an izzar, three
mandeels, a pair of boots, and long or high cobcobs (san-

Miss Walker, Miss Mac of us, went. We met n ing drums, and singi coming from the house It is the custom: he n his bride. The bridegr two men at each side h two swords crossed a

dress, and she had on lots of jewelry (all coins). She was covered over with a pink veil. The people told us to keep on singing, for they had never heard such singing before. Some thought it better than their skirls. When the bridegroom arrived he sat at one end of the room, with two at each side of him holding candles, while Zeinub sat at the other side, with us round her. The bridegroom did not see her yet. The singing women began to play and sing. Then the bridegroom's mother danced

and blue STIK пowers, wil The bridegroom liked it an thought it better than ali. was very late. We said g when we came away and made her sit beside her and singing went on for went away. We heard ne ing all day; she felt very

before him holding a lighted candle in each hand. When she finished she kissed him and put money in his hand, and so did his aunt, cousins and sister. After this they brought Zeinub and made her sit opposite to him. The veil was over her face, and her eyes were shut, and they told us to come and sit beside the bridegroom; so Miss Walker, Miss Macpherson and some of us, sat beside him, and Zeinub was opposite. The bridegroom asked Miss Walker if she would take his young sister into the school to learn and become clever like Zeinub. He was quite proud of his bride and liked her dresses that she made in the school.

When Zeinub was brought opposite the bridegroom he went up to her and took off her veil and put it under The women went on with their singing and

teen villages on the northwestern slopes of Mt.
Lebanon.

The Friends have missions at Brumana and Ramallah,
and aid schools at other points.

The British Syrian schools number 30, and are at Beirut, Damascus, Zahleh, Baalbec, Tyre, and on Mount Lebanon and Mount Hermon.

At Beirut is an institu Mrs. Mott, a benevolen was told the following was telling me of the re that the younger girls accord, organized a lit out in the arbor in the The h

The Church of Scotland is generally reported as having of the school.

CITY OF TIBERIAS.

a mission in Syria, but its mission is at Smyrna, where sunset.
its medical work is meeting with much favor.

The Free Church of Scotland has recently established
a Medical Mission at Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee,
and the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society has
missions at Nazareth and Damascus.

Rev. Youhannah El Karey and wife are carrying on an
independent Baptist mission at Nablous (Shechem), near
Jacob's Well. They report a school of 100 Moslem
girls, a Sunday School of 150 children and 17 church
members.

At Jaffa is a school of 60 male pupils, conducted by
Mrs. Hay, of America, and a school of 44 girls conduc-

"And what do

she said to one of them
Star'; because, when
comes out, and so, wher
is held, and we have
"And what do you pray
said to her. "Oh, we I
ially we pray for the
Syrian girls seemed to h
conversion."

The Presbyterian Ch
Damascus in charge of
J. Phillips, assisted by