Rev. HENRY HARRIS JESSUP, D.D.,
Reading edition
Seventeen years American Missionary in Syria.
EDITED BY Rev. C. S. ROBINSON, D.D., & Rev. ISAAC RILEY.
"The threshold weeps forty days when a girl is born."
—Mt. Lebanon Proverb.
NEW YORK: DODD & MEAD, PUBLISHERS.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1873, by DODD & MEAD, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED TO THE
CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF AMERICA.
Beirût, Syria, July, 1873.
Owing to the impossibility of my attending personally to the editing of this volume, I requested my old friends, Rev. C. S. Robinson, D.D., and Rev. Isaac Riley, of New York, to superintend the work, and would gratefully acknowledge their kind and disinterested aid, cheerfully proffered at no little sacrifice of time.
H. H. JESSUP.