Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-04-04
NO. IA.

the Bible Americans and the prayer-book
Americans. ! tell him the PRAYER book is
extracted from the Bible Later Mr. Guide
wants 10 sell me nasty little knives. SOLELY
because they are made in Nazareth finally
he becomes a nuisance and dismiss him.
tie has been a pupil Of Gobat, speaks Eng
lish well, is sad specimen Of an Eastern
Protestant. While coming down the mount.
am buy pie of baked dough from a wom-
an who has just cooked it by means of little
stones heated with dried dung used as fuel
The woman is clean, her GAZETTE quite palat-
able. IL is the country bread / make her
happy with half franc.
The afternoon is too hot to 20 anywhere
l write this diary and resist the alurements
OF Greek wedding, whose shouts reach
US l imshee (go away the old guide with
We'll they can marry without me.
AAprt Our patient is not well enough
to leave. It is "a in the shade. with hot
breeze so we get up late, do "our chores"
and resume writing. find it an extreme
y arduous task | must necessarily omit
much and keep silent over the thousand
questions raised by such a trip.
My faith in Christ has always rested ON
his tawless life, on the impossibility to in
vent such life. My visit to Palestine has
not altered my views [ am glad to have
seen the land, have better conception of
details but do not travel as a pilgrim |
nave not the faith to believe in spots [
may believe in facts, in results The fruits
OIL Chrlstlanism are a much greater proof
OF its divine origin than all the arguments
presented by theoogians After seeing the
results of Islamism, Brahminsm. Buddh-
ism, those of Confuciuss system. etc, and
the results Of Christ religion, even if its
adherents are far from perfection, it is i'm.
possible not to believe.
The people Of Nazareth are cleaner.
neater than those of any other place we
have visited in Palestine. The children are
inps, as everywhere Yesterday. while
with the monk, one came kissed my hand,
saluted me in French later on a rude boy
pushed another against me rebuked him
and thought Of Elisha's bears. The wind
carries away my paper write on a table
shaken by it. This morning we received a
note:
"ENGLIsH ORPHASAGE NAZARETH.
- Monday Morning
We hear you were enquiring about the doctor.
who is absent We fear you have iuvaliis in yonr
camp. Is there anything we could send down
Tor them any cooling drinks ielies or medi-
clnes: Or IS there anything you need and have
., mIu III camp; II we nave It We will send it with
LADY SUPERINTENDENT"
| have sent Selim to the Turkish post
office with letters He tells me there is a
telegram for me which has been there for
two days. Telegraph coming to NazarethD
1t would have been against holy red tape to
give the telegram to Selim ! must 20 my
self Soon Mr.. Postmaster appears with
the piece of red paper covered with Turk
ish charabia. My heart is in my mouth.
mother is pale. General Warren. who has
become our neighbor, looks at us with in
terest 1t turns out to be a telegram from
my brother John, saying he will meet us
next Sunday in Damascus We are relieved
The postmaster claims he has searched all
Nazareth for the owner Of the telegram
the lazy fellow never thought of looking or
sending to camp within the city limits.
1t Is only when he saw the address of nv
letters that the luminous idea flashed ON his
mind yet he claimed 10 know my brother
IN Beyrouth, and later | hear that he be-
longs to family which once ruled large
district in the Lebanon. | give the above
as sample of Turkish energy
On my horse, with man to guide me. |
climb sharp streets leading to the English
Orphanage, where our lady has gone directly
with her donkey and the dragoman. The
building is most beautiful, appropriate to
its purposes. The lady directress is a trim.
wide awake, English young lady. All the
doors are bolted it looks as if we were in
a fortress. One of the oldest pupils has
been asked in marriage by shop keeper.
Protestant but unworthy fellow. She has
refused, and the suer has given notice that
he was coming with his friends to carry her
off and marry her Such things are done
here the directress can get no protection
from the Turkish authorities, who are Sc
verely hostile to anything Christian. so she
has locked and heavily bolted all entrances,
and is on the qui vive for any caller. 1t is
a state of siege which would be ludicrous
if so serious principle were not involved.
The girls are all orphans from the lowest
strata, and have no relatives to protect
them. The heart bleeds on seeing such
facts, but, under one form or another, we
find them the same everywhere The Otto
mans hate all that is Christian They have
closed most of the schools in Palestine and
Syria, have become arrogant, and greater
liars than ever. They are coming to the
end of their tether, and act as people who
do not care" They agree to do a
thing, and secretly send word to their sub
ordinates not to obey orders. There seems
to be no remedy till the European powers
agree to divide the Turkish dominion among
themselves viii they ever agree Mr..
Diary, stop your essay on the Ottomans.
Your readers have books, know history.
and can study those questions better than
you have time to tell them.
The nights are very damp in Nazareth
the dews heavy. In the morning the pal
anquin is a shining lake in the sun . every
thing is wet. Mater is better, but pater
has lost all appetite.
april .G.-Thermometer 50 at 6 A. NJ.
Disagreeable, wet, cold getting up; dew,
and nothing but dew Goodby to our
neghbors, the Warrens OFF at 130, up
the long hill which givesus last view of the
Nazareth city and surroundings.