and resolution in entering, in several of these places, upon outpost duty, without European society, and isolated for months together from persons speaking their own language.  I believe that such instances as these have demonstrated anew the fact that where woman is to be reached, woman can go, and Christian women from Christian lands, even if beyond the age generally fixed as the best adapted to the easy acquisition of a foreign language, may yet do a great work in maintaining centres of influence at the outposts, and superintending the labors of native teachers.  These young native teachers trained in Shemlan, Sidon, Suk el Ghurb and Beirut, cannot go to distant places as teachers, and ought not to go, without a home and proper protection provided for them.  Such protection is given by a European or American woman, who has the independence and the resolution to go where no missionary family resides, and carry on the work of female education.  Even at the risk of offending the modesty of the persons concerned, I cannot refrain from putting on record my admiration of the course of Miss Wilson in Zahleh, Miss Gibbon in Hasbeiya, and Miss Williams in Tyre, in making homes for themselves, and carrying on their work far from European society and intercourse.

The British Syrian Schools are doing a good work in promoting Bible education.  Many of the native teachers, male and female, have been trained in our Mission Seminaries, and not a few of them are members of our evangelical churches.  It has always been my aim, from the time when Mrs. Bowen Thompson first landed in Syria to the present time, to do all in my power to “help those women which labored with me in the gospel.”

We are engaged in a common work, surrounded by thousands of needy perishing souls, Mohammedan, Pagan and Nominal Christian.  The work is pressing, and the Lord’s husbandmen ought to work together, forgetting and ignoring all diversities of nationality, denomination and social customs.  There should be no such word as American, English, Scotch or German, attached to any enterprise that belongs to the common Master.  The common foe is united in opposition.  Let us be united in every practicable way.  Let our name be Christian, our work one of united sympathy, prayer and cooeperation, and let not Christ be divided in His members.  I write these words in connection with the subject of the British Syrian Schools, because I can speak from experience of the value of such cooeperation in the past.  As Acting Pastor of the Native Evangelical Church in Beirut, to the communion of which I have received so many young teachers and pupils from the various Seminaries and schools, I feel the great importance of this hearty cooeperation and unity of action among those who are at the head of the various Protestant Educational Institutions in Syria.