A History of Protestant missions in the near East

256 History of Protestant Missions in the Near East
bookstore near Christ Church, which is the centre of the
whole system. Thus Jerusalem is one of the best-equipped
stations of the Jewish mission in the world. The same
society has stations at Jaffa and Safed. In Jaffa, which was
temporarily occupied in 1845 before it was made a permanent
station in 1882, there is but a small congregation, provided
with a church. But in Safed there is a hospital with a
dispensary, a girls' school, a night-school for boys and for
girls,
and a bookstore.
In addition to this society for promoting Christianity
among the Jews, special mention must be made of the United
Free Church of Scotland, which is
working among the Jews
of Palestine. In 1884, the mission of this Church occupied
Tiberias, a town full of filth, yet held sacred by the Jews,
where Dr. Torrance still continues his labours with much
patience. "Within the last few years he has built a new and
roomy mission hospital on a fine site overlooking the Sea of
Galilee. The society has also schools for Jews in Safed,
which are managed by the missionaries in Tiberias. A still
more important point has been gained by the occupation of
the fanatical town of Hebron. Here Dr. Patterson, a
medical missionary, is stationed, and holds his own in spite of
all opposition. He has established a dispensary, which is
much visited, and a temporary hospital with ten beds, which
it is
hoped will soon be followed by a larger and more suitable
building. A few Mildmay deaconesses also worked for
a time among the Jews in Hebron, opening a dispensary.
Altogether there are only slightly more than one hundred
and fifty baptized Jews in the Holy Land these ; form, however,
but a small portion of the Jews that have become
Protestants, for very many more have emigrated to escape
persecution.
Working among the Oriental Christian population there are
also a number of small societies, which cannot become really
effective on account of their isolation. We name such as are
known to us in geographical order. In Judea there is the
private work of the Anglican Bishop Blyth in Jerusalem,