The learned world heard with deep regret, in the year 1836, of the loss of this valuable manuscript in the shipwreck of Mr.and Mrs.Smith on their voyage to Smyrna.

The Arabic press arrived in 1834, and passed without objection through the customhouse.

Indeed, there were at that time no less than six presses in Syria and the Holy Land, belonging to Jews and Papists, and no one of them was subjected to hindrance, censorship, or taxation.
It could not truly be said, that any material change had taken place in the character and condition of the people at large, as a consequence of Protestant missions.

But this at least was true, that the impression given by the Jesuits, that Protestants had no religion, no priesthood, and no churches, had been extensively removed.

The missionaries unite in their testimony, that the circulation of the Scriptures is not alone sufficient to regenerate a people.