Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-29
thing goes on it will fast become imposs

thing goes on it will fast become impossi- ble to realize that there ever was 8 garden or an olive on the mount.
 But in their proper activities there is little except praise to bestow on all the churches. I have heard Anglican mission aries of an evangelical society pay warm tribute to the educational missions of the church of Rome-both those of the Fran ciscans and those of the Jesuits The large boys and girls boarding schools and orphanages, which one meets with in Jeru- salem and Damascus out for their evening walk with nun or priest at their head, tell the same tale. In the Maronite coun- try, where Lebanon looks down on the sea, you meet so many Jesuit fathers and so many Maronite priests educated in Rome, that Juvenars line seems reversed, and the Fiber to be flowing into the Orontes. The Jesuits give a thoroughly good education Of Protestant education I saw great deal, from village schools in Lebanon and the east of the Jordan, to the medical doctors, pastors and teachers turned out by the American college at Beyrut. With the wisdom of Abraham and Lot, Anglicans and Presbyterians many years ago divided the land between them, the English church keeping to the Holy Land proper and the American Pres
 
 is an undenominational organization which works with the Presbyterisns in their dis trict and with the Anglicans in theirs-the British Syrian schools mission. It is al most solely managed by women, on whose devoted and successful work too high praise cannot be bestowed. All these and other foreigners have provoked the Greek church to like words, and perhaps the most pleasing sign of change I found in Palestine was the awakening of this church to her educational responsibilities As signs of this need only mention that in Damascus the patriarch started evening schools for young artisans and boys at work, and took great personal trouble with Saturday evening meetings of young men for debating religious subjects. The Mohsmmedsns, as it may be imagined, are not resting where Christians are so hard at work, and there is lively and upiver- sal competition throughout the land for the rising generation. In fact, next to the frst-class European states, do not suppose that there is any country where the opportunities of education, from the elements up to sufficient training for the medical and teaching professions, are more widespread or effective. The American college at Beyrut, with its medical side and its arts side, and with its magnificent press, is the crown of the whole, and a center of igl-t and leading for all the Le- want.
 One of the most striking things in Pal estine is the number of young men, from three to eight years standing, whom you meet with on all sides of missionary work, but chiefly upon the medical This is the mission-work that tells; and after seeing it in connection with the Church of Scot land mission in Smyrna, the Edinburgh medical mission in Damascus, and the Free Church of Scotland mission at Tiberiss, I wonder that any mission can afford to live without it, and that those churches which have it do not support it more generally In doctorless land like Syria five or six medical missionaries are certain to be overworked. Scarcely one of them has a proper hospital at his disposal, most of them are without even trained nurses, and sixty cases, some of them requiring seri- ous operations, often fall in single day to the lonely, unfurnished practitioner. If the societies are not able to send two men to every post where they now send one, surely medical students who have just qualified would be glad, for the pay ment of their expenses, to assist for a year or two in work in which the number espe- cially of surgical cases is so large and so varied. In six months at medical mis- sionarys side in Syria young doctor will see more than he can see in ten years in an ordinary practice at home.