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St Francis Magazine Vol 8, No 2 | April 2012 I have recently opened a similar school also in Tiberias. There was a school of older foundation in Salt, which I had made over, in the interests of peace, to a priest of that place, but as he did not answer, I have established another in the course of the summer, under a more efficient master. The Greek Patriarch has taken upon himself to defray the entire cost, and has further promised to retain the master chosen by me, and to admit no other books beside those which I have prescribed... I fear before long great multitudes of people will set up a religion of their own, a sort of unbridled Protestantism of their own, so soon as they get sufficient encouragement from without. Under these circumstances, all that I can do will be to spread the Word of God by every possible means. (Memoirs p.261) By October 1850, Gobat was able to report that a Protestant congregation had indeed formed in Nazareth, and that they met “...on Sunday, in small companies in order to read their Bible and pray in common, on which occasions they make use of the English liturgy translated into Arabic” (Memoirs 270). So, facing this urgent need for pastoral care and educators, Bishop Gobat appealed to CMS for help and, despite the obvious caution against inflaming fears of proselytising that had already been aroused, they agreed to the offer of the Revd. John Bowen (who had heard of the need at one of the CMS Jubilee celebrations in 1849 to mark 50 years of the Society) to visit the region to see what openings there might be for sending missionaries to help Gobat. As a result of Bowen’s visit, CMS decided in 1851 to open a formal Mission in Palestine. The Revd. Frederick Klein, one of a number of German Protestants who made up the larger proportion of Western missionaries in the region in the early days of the Diocese, arrived in Palestine in the same year. By 1854, there would be Western missionaries in Jerusalem (Klein himself), Jaffa, Haifa, and Nablus. Bowen himself is temporarily posted to Nazareth (where he will meet with the family of Chalil Jamal, whose description of Bowen in 1871 will refer to him as 292
St Francis Magazine Vol 8, No 2 | April 2012 bishop – which he became on his consecration as a short-‐lived Bishop of Sierra Leone in Sept. 1857). As part of the “Documents of the Jerusalem Bishopric”, published in 1883, there is an interesting reflection by Klein (who had memorably discovered the Moabite stone in 1868 during one of his journeys to the east of the Jordan) which echoes much of what we have already seen in Bishop Gobat’s early annual reports. When in the year 1851, I arrived in Palestine, I found at Jerusalem a small number of natives, partly enquirers, who used to come together on the Lord’s Day for prayer and reading of the Scriptures. At Nablous, there was another little band of enquirers and at Nazareth, a larger number had expressed a desire to place themselves under our instruction. At Salt, also, on the other side of the Jordan, there were some people willing to be instructed in the Word of God. (Jerusalem Bishopric Documents 73) And although the company of Western missionaries in Palestine soon decreased to just the two locations of Jerusalem and Nazareth, this date of 1851 marks the beginning of continuous involvement by CMS personnel in the life of what is now the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem covering the peoples of Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and the Occupied Territories. 4. Arab Christian pioneers If 1854 sees the establishing of a number of Western missionaries in different locations across Palestine, it also marks the year when the first so-‐far named Arab Christian is appointed as a catechist to work among the newly forming Protestant communities. His name is Michael Kawar 161 . As has been 161 Whose name is spelled in various different ways using the Latin alphabet; the precise Arabic spelling is ‏.ققععوواارر293
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