And when here, so many other cares have we had, that a single sermon on the Sabbath has been, for most of the time, all the formal preaching that has been done.

Add to this a weekly prayermeeting for six or seven months in the year." Again he says: "The labor of years has been accomplished in gaining experience, forming favorable acquaintances, doing away with prejudice, disseminating evangelical truth, the successful commencement of printing operations, etc.

All this labor is in the language of a vast nation of Mohammedans, the sacred language of the whole sect, the language of their prophet.

And when their power falls, it will be so much done towards their conversion.

Instead of being alarmed and discouraged by the revolutions that are occurring around me, I am interested in them as forerunners of that great event." The political changes have generally been very sudden in Syria.