Report for 1842, pp.

117-124.
_Missionary Herald_, 1842, pp.

196, 229, 362.
This was very properly regarded as a providential deliverance for the mission, which had never been threatened with so formidable an opposition as at the beginning of the year.

It now entered into a correspondence with nearly all the principal Druze sheiks, who felt that they had, by their swords, won the right to schools.

The prospects were at that time very hopeful.