The Fellaheen were from the B'hamra district. I have not heard the particulars, but they say that quite a number were killed, some wounded and several villages destroyed. The Constantinople war news you receive as soon as we do and therefore I will not fill up my letter with stale news.

We closed our schools a week ago, with a joint examination. The programme was about as follows: Thursday, July 26th, the classes beginning geography and arithmetic, in the boarding school, girls' day school and boys' day school were examined. The exercises were interspersed with singing. Friday, July 27th, the advanced class in arithmetic, the grammar classes, reading, class in French, girls' day school, English classes and the class in prosody. The exercises were conducted in the same way as on Thursday. Sabbath morning from 8 A. M. till 12 M. was spent in a general review of all subjects pertaining to religion, such as Brown's children's catechism, Assembly's Shorter Catechism, Bible questions on Genesis and the gospels. The examination was very entertaining and I trust profitable to all who attended. It gave each school an idea of what the other was doing, and we trust will be the means of inciting the scholars to greater diligence in the future. Last Thursday we had a wedding. I say we, because we settled the day and everything pertaining to the marriage. The parties were Yacoub Ei Hamadan and Marie El Kanaane. Yacoub is assistant teacher in our boys' day school. Mrs. Easson made them a party and the bride was taken from our house to her home, which consists of one room which they hired in the city. Her friends from the mountain states came down in the night and spent a day or two with them. But they had to be very careful not to let the government know they were here. But perhaps some of the young ladies will give you a description of the wedding and I know they can do it better than I can, so you will please excuse me from enlarging on this subject. We would like to be able to take our 100 scholars in the boarding school this winter. What do you say? How much can you give us this year per quarter or per month? With much much love to all, I am yours in the Lord's work,

HENRY EASSON.

August 8th.-Another battle fought yesterday between the soldiers and Fellaheen. Among the killed is one of the head men of the Fellaheen. The Governor of Tripoli is coming on the steamer to-morrow. Whether the Fellaheen will hold out or not I don't know. Their two leading men are out of the way, one killed and the other wounded.

Enclosed you will find the report of last quarter. Yours faithfully,

H. E.

LATAKIYEH, SYRIA, July 6, 1877.

DEAR BROTHER WYLIE:-We are all well at present. Miss C. is much better than she was, though her heart still troubles her at times. Dr. Metheny is not home at present. He had a call from Adana to go and see some sick persons. Affairs about town seem to be very quiet just now. But in the mountain every man does about what is right in his own eyes. The Fellaheen seem to have gotten the better hand of the government. It is not considered safe to go out into the mountains at all. They say they will not disturb us. They are in great distress at present, for the locusts have eaten up all their crops. They say we can have as many children as we will take next year. They would gladly bring them now if we would take them. But we will not take any until after vacation.

We had another letter from Daoud a couple of weeks ago. He was well, and was in the same place that he had been when we heard from him in April.

He had at last received letters from us. He said he cried when he heard his children were not in school. He wrote to his wife to bring them to us immediately. She was down last week but did not bring them. She said she would do it, and wanted Miss C. to write and tell Daoud they were here. But she was told it would not be done till they were herc.

The mother of one of our little boys has been tormented all year by her neighbors because her little boy is here. Last week they told her he was dead and buried. She would not believe it at first, for she said we would send her word. But they told her it was true, so the poor woman walked down to see. She found him reciting his lesson.

We have had very little sickness this year. Our day school is prospering very well. We have as many as we can well accommodate in the primary departments. One great hindrance to the attendance is the numerous feast days they have, though they attend better now on feast days than they did. I feel much more at home since I began to teach. I think they are not so hard to govern, and they learn as well as the colored children. It is very trying on one's throat to teach Arabic. Especially when we teach them orally, as we do the beginners the Psalms, and questions and verses from the Bible.

Mizzie teaches the singing in both schools now. Miss Dodd's voice has grown too weak. Mrs. Easson helps us on sewing afternoons. She can do almost everything, and is so energetic. Last week she began to teach them to make button holes. Not a girl in the school had ever made one. If they have buttons they sew little loops on their dresses for button holes. We expect to continue school till the middle of August. We have had very pleasant weather all spring for school, but it is getting very warm now.

We are having a good chance for work among the Greeks, and we are trying to improve it to the best of our ability. I do so long to be able to talk fluently and well. But patience and perseverance seem to be a lesson we have to learn well when we come here. MRS. R. WYLIE.

ADANA, TURKEY, July 9, 1877.

MY DEARLY BELOVED UNCLE AND AUNTIE STERRETT :-Eleven years ago I visited this place to attend a lady who had for seven years been unable to speak more than three to five syllables at a time. Her wealthy Armenian husband had taken her to Smyrna and Constantinople, but to no effect. You remember when I was shot by some villagers; I was returning from this place then. Since then one of this lady's daughters was married to a Mr. Bizdikian, a wealthy man in Adana. They telegraphed for me to come, but I felt that the weather was so hot that I should hardly venture to an inland city at this time of the year. But yet I needed some kind of change, and ventured, and I hope my present visit will be no less successful than the former. Her mother welcomed me at the door, strong and hearty, and though ten years have gone by she remains well and talks and chatters glibly without any impediment of speech. I found her daughter, however, in a fearful state from "meningitis." She began to recover and was making excellent progress when she was visited by a number of her friends at meal times. After she had eaten, each one asked her in turn-" now take a spoonful for me;" another would ask her "now won't you see my pleasure, too? take another," and so on till she ate far too much. I had been here already six days and was quite elated to see her sitting up in bed and "doing so well." You may imagine my distress at seeing her suddenly relapse into those fearful convulsions. What is the matter? what has she done or eaten? They all stoutly affirmed that nothing had oc

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curred to occasion the relapse. Did she not eat a good deal yesterday? No! not she. I could not believe them and administered an emetic, when, to their confusion, abundant evidence of their folly was speedily produced. She is getting on well now, but might have been much better off but for their imprudence. I charged them eighty Turkish pounds-equivalent to $400, and my traveling expenses. The pound here is so much more valuable just now that I have changed it into a kind of currency which is called here sagh money. By this I realized $37 on the gold. Add to this another $104 from patients in the city, and we have $541 for my trip. I think I hear Auntie saying--yes! yes! hard earned, David. I am ready to acknowledge it is, but our good people in America are so liberal to our mission I desire to help by every means in my power, for we need it all and can do immense good just now with a few dollars. charged the wealthy people $5 a visit, my usual fee, the poor free, and the well to do in proportion. I sent to Paris for artificial eyes but they did not come in time and in consequence I did not gain nearly so much as I would have done. I had only three along with me. When I telegraphed back from Latakiyeh that I took my pay in advance and that they could pay it in Beirut they accepted, but the time was so short and the steamer was soon to arrive, they paid the £80 to the Waly or Governor General of the pashalik. He in turn asked the Governor of Latakiyeh to pay me, but there was not enough money in the Latakiyeh treasury, so I declined to honor the promise, but told Mr. Bizdikian that a telegram from the Protestant pastor saying he had received the money would be acknowledged and honored. This was accordingly done, and I set out by steamer the same evening on the 27th of June. How curious to the Turk that I should accept the word of a poor disciple of Christ in preference to His Excellency's, especially as he is a follower of "our prophet Mohammed!" Since I was here before an excellent road has been made from Marsine to Adana, a distance of 42 miles. Think of it! I rode in a carriage, a veritable carriage, in Turkey. When I passed over this way before, I had just received a nice long letter from you-a diary. I took it along with me and while I stopped to let the horses rest and eat a little grass I read it over and

over.

How the world has changed since then. Ellie and Emma were here then-Bro. Dodds, too, was along. Now they are with God. Then Bro. Galbraith came to Syria to ascend on high from this land of darkness. Still he saw before he went, living evidences of Christ's blessed light having arisen on many here. Georgie Easson and his little infant sister were soon followed by Dr. Martin's only child and next his wife, so much beloved by us all. Last; Emma left me. ALEXANDRETTA, July 16, 1877.

I am thus far on my way back to Latakiyeh. I hope to be at home on the 17th in the morning. I will have been gone nineteen days and a half. I intended to have started home on Saturday night, but could not get any conveyance, so I waited and started late as I could Sabbath night so as to make sure of the steamer, as it would be my only chance of getting home for half a month more. We arrived in Tarsus by the Turkish mail coach in the night and visited some sick people there. I might have added about three hundred dollars to the mission by staying two weeks more, but I felt I had been in the oven long enough. Could I have had an assistant I could have had a large revenue from surgery. Quite a number of patients were on board, on their way to be treated. I delight in my profession to which I was educated. My memory in medical and clinical affairs is so much better than in anything else.

I am anxious that Archie may soon be on the ground, he is needed so much. Indeed. I feel that we should have two more. I delight in the medical pro

fession on account of the influence it gives, but I am quite unwilling when the influence has been attained to forego making use of it. I have delivered temperance discourses every day in Adana. Quite a number promised me to leave off drinking and smoking-brother vices.

When will people read statistics and see the dreadful entailments of a dissolute life. I ran over some official Paris facts in regard to their vices-also London and our own cities. I have been as busy at National Reform here as I can—" wide field!" you will say. How glibly journalists talk of the Eastern question as if man could settle it or adjust it. The Holy Spirit alone by means of The Word will accomplish it. The same may be said of our own land and every other land. The question of the world is Christ or no Christ. It may take many shapes, assume many characters, but it is readily resolved into the simple expression, will ye have this man to rule over you?

Every day I see new beauties and greater importance in the divine petition, Thy Kingdom come. Let us while we remain in the world pray it and live it. How it delights my soul to see your labors in this line! I am sure the "teach all nations rests on every professor of his name. But when all is done that will be done it will still remain for the saints of the Most High to take and possess the Kingdom. The wolf has never yet let the lamb go from moral considerations. The wolf and lion kind have had it their own way nearly long enough. Affectionately,

D. METHENY.

KESSAB, August 16, 1877.

MY DEAR ARCHIE:-You know what coming to Kessab means, and in a boat, too, carrying all that you have to eat for two months, and riding over rough roads for two hours. Do you mind the time you came? Do you mind the road from Coladeran to Kessab? Those great high mountains towering up on each side of the valley, and all covered with verdure? I would have enjoyed it so much if the weather had not been so warm-did as it was, but I was afraid the children would be sick from the sun. Gurgis is along and does about as well as any one else would. We are all keeping house together in the Mission House. We women are keeping house week about. Mr. Easson, Aunt Beckie and Aunt Mattie are expected up next week. It is delightful up here. We have had a great deal of rain this week. Yesterday morning we went out to Shemel Howah, and while we were out it began to rain. We thought it would soon be over; so we packed the children under a rock and disposed ourselves about under the edge of the rock, a shawl and a waterproof. By-and-by the two latter were soaked and the rain poured down the rocks, and we were well saturated. It still kept on raining and we thought we might as well go home through it, so off we started. The road which was dry when we came down, was full of water, and we had to trudge right through it. We had to change all our clothes, and felt no evil results from our wetting. Quite a lot of events were crowded into the two weeks before we came up here; the return of the doctor from Adana via Beyrout, the arrival of Dr. Martin to spend a little while in Latakiyeh, the examination of the three schools, the arri val of the Vandalia, and the entertainment of its officers, an English sermon from the doctor to part of the crew, the preparation of Marie's wedding outfit and her marriage to Yakoub, and a party at Haddad's. It was delightful to lie round and do nothing after we got here. The doctor actually lay about for a week, and just slept and ate and listened to reading. MARY DODDS.

DOMESTIC MISSION.

Rev. R. B. Cannon, D. D., at the request of Central Board, and by appointment of Iowa Presbytery, visited Lake Reno and Round Prairie congregations. From his report to the Board we take the following extracts:

At a meeting of the Lake Reno session called to adjust difficulties between the members, and which was accomplished to the satisfaction of all, it was agreed to have the Lord's Supper dispensed on the following Sabbath, which was done. I think all who were present will say there were evidences of the presence of the Divine Master with us on that occasion. In a ministry of over thirty years, I never saw a more devout and earnest assembly at a communion. The restoration of good feeling among the members, and the return of those who had become somewhat careless, gave the most intense satisfaction. I went with great reluctance to fulfil the appointment given me, and only did it out of respect to the authority sending me. And now I adore and bless the God of Heaven' that he made me instrumental in strengthening the things that were ready to die. I must here mention that I was greatly assisted in the whole work by Mr. Dill, the missionary in charge of the field. His earnestness and prudence, together with his universal acceptability among the people, made the work much easier for me.

At Round Prairie I dispensed the Lord's Supper also, with the assistance of Mr. Dill. Five new members were received, one on certificate from the Presbyterian church, two from congregations of our own, and two on examination. One of these I baptized.

The stations are about forty miles apart. Reno is a prairie country, abounding in a multiplicity of lakes covering an amount of ground from a few acres to several miles in diameter. The chief lakes having names are, Lakes Whipple, Reno, Ann, Agnes, Leaven and Ellen, together with a great many that are nameless. The water is clear and hard. The shores are not marshy but hard and pebbly, like the beach at the sea shore. Farms improved and unimproved can be had at low rates. When the Central Branch of the North Pacific R. R., now graded to Alexandria, shall be completed to that point, they will then be within twelve miles of direct communication with the Eastern markets.

"Round Prairie" is an opening in the timber of about six miles north and south, by three east and west. Good farms can be had very cheap, at present. Those who first settled there wish to go still further West-not our people. I exceeded my commission in one thing. I moderated a call in each place which resulted unanimously in favor of John W. Dill.

In a letter to the Board, dated September 12, 1877, Rev. J. M. Armour gives the following account of his work:

According to arrangements made last fall, with the people here and with the Board, I returned to this place, early this spring and found the society of our people increased by the arrival of several families. Prayer meeting and Sabbath school had been kept up regularly, during the winter, in a school house about two miles from Sterling. This place was not the most suitable, but was the best that could be obtained at that time. I had felt, before returning here, considerable anxiety in regard to our obtaining a suitable place for worship. On commencing here this spring it was judged best to continue to conduct one service every Sabbath, at this place where our people had made a stand. Meantime I preached in the afternoon in Sterling, in church or public hall, as opportunity occurred, and for several weeks together, preached regularly, in the Friends church at 3 P. M., and in addition to this preached occasionally in the evening.