HENRY H. JESSUP Taken when Moderator of the General Assembly. Contents SECOND VOLUME XIX. NOTABLE VISITORS AND CONVERTS . . 405 XX. A CHOLERA YEAR ...... 430 XXL HELPS AND HINDRANCES . . , . .467 XXII. MISSION SCHOOLS ...... 508 XXIII. SKETCHES 1887 ...... 526 XXIV. THREE YEARS OF PROGRESS 1888 . . . 533 XXV. MARKING TIME . . . . . .572 XXVI. A NEW CENTURY DAWNS 1899-1900 . . 664 XXVII. THE WHITENING FIELDS 1901-1902 . . 695 XXVIII. MY LATEST FURLOUGH YEARS 1903-1904 . 719 XXIX. JUBILEE TIMES 1905-1907 .... 753 XXX. WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE JANUARY I9O8-MAY 1909 781 APPENDICES I. Missionaries in Syria Mission from 1819 to i9 8 797 II. The History Bibliography . . .801 III. American Medical Missionaries and Agencies in Syria Mission . 802 IV. List of Mission Schools of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in Beirut and D am as c as, and in the Mutserfiyet of Lebanon . . . . . 805 V Outline of the History of the Syria Mission of the American Presbyterian Church and Contemporary Events, 18201900 . . 809 VI. Figures, 1908-1909 Statistics of the Syria Mission . . . . .814 VII, Statistics of the Syrian Protestant College from 1866 to 1906 .... 819 INDEX . . . . . .821 Illustrations SECOND VOLUME Facing page Dr. Jessup ........ College Hall, Syrian Protestant College . . . . 412 Mission Group ......... 429 A View of Lebanon ......... 440 A View in the Lebanon ........ 456 Hasroun, A Lebanon Village ....... 465 Geo. E. Post Science Hall, Syrian Protestant College . . . 480 Assembly Hall, Syrian Protestant College ..... 490 Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. Sarcophagus of Weeping Women 507 Front View of Gerard Institute, Sidon . . , . . 5 1 3 Dar es Salaam Orphanage. Gerard Institute Pupils . . .516 Asfuriyeh Hospital. General View . . . . . .521 Pietros Hotel, 1875 ......... 530 Jedaan the Bedawy ......... 541 Kamil Aietany .......... 559 Syrian Mission in 1893 with Drs. Bliss and Post, .... 570 Gorge of Nahr Barada ........ 585 American Press .......... 590 The Damascus to Mecca Railway . . . . . .601 Beirut Memorial Column . . . . . . .618 Daniel Bliss Hall ......... 630 Mission Stations . . . . . . . . .680 The Seventieth Birthday Picnic. Ancient Mule Bridge . . . 690 Yusef Ahtiyeh, Kasim Beg Amin ....... 700 Dr. Daniel Bliss in 1905 . . . . . . . .711 Syrian Churches and Houses . . . . . . .720 Group of Syrian Teachers and Preachers . . . . .730 Interior of the Chapel of the Protestant College, Beirut . . 737 Group of Syrian Churches ........ 749 Plan of the American Mission Property . . . . . .781 XIX Notable Visitors and Converts The one-eyed kadi Mr. Roosevelt Two great sheikhs The new bell Wm. E. Dodge Abu Selim and Moosa Ata The monthly con cert at home, AT the close of 1873 the stations were manned as follows Beirut, Drs. Thomson, Van Dyck, Dennis, and H. H. Jessup. Abeih, Messrs. Calhoun and Bird. Sidon, Messrs. W. W. Eddy and Pond. Tripoli, Messrs. S. Jessup and Hardin, and Dr. Danforth. Zahleh, Messrs. Dale, Wood, and March. The theological seminary was opened in Beirut in premises adjoining Dr. Denniss house, the teachers being Dr. Dennis, Dr. C. V. A. Van Dyck, Dr. Wm. M. Thomson, and my self. The Syrian Protestant College at this time had eighty-four students in all its departments and all its friends were much en couraged. They little thought that in 1907 the number would be 878. In September the notable meeting of the International Evan gelical Alliance, postponed from 1870 on account of the Franco-Prussian War, was held in New York. My paper on Missions to the Oriental Churches was read in my absence by my dear friend, Rev. D. Stuart Dodge. It was subsequently the basis of a booklet on The Greek Church and Protestant Missions written at the request of the Christian Literature Society of New York 405 406 Notable Visitors and Converts and a special edition of which was published in England by my friends, Canon H. B. Tristram and Rev. H. E. Fox, and sent to hundreds of clergymen of the Church of England...