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St Francis Magazine Vol 8, No 2 | April 2012 on July 19th 1847, one of eleven children. Hanna was a teacher in Lydd for 19 years, and was ordained deacon on Trinity Sunday (June 16th) 1889 by Bishop Gobat’s successor, Bishop Blyth, the 4th Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem. The Revd. Hanna Dimishky died on Dec. 5th 1912. By this time one of Hanna’s children, Paul, had also himself been ordained by Bishop Blyth, becoming Deacon in 1902 and priested in 1906, after three years service in Beirut, and one year apiece in Jerusalem and Haifa. He is described as having married a sister of Mrs. Boutaji (Haifa) whose family were “well respected in Lebanon”. From1906-‐11, the Revd. Paul Dimishky served with SPG in Bombay, returning to work with a Canon Parfit in Lebanon until moving to South Africa, and later to England where he became the Vicar of St. Augustine’s, Skirlaugh, in the Diocese of York (Archive ref: G3P/L14 p.403). The writer was privileged to get to know one of his daughters, Lydia Lyth, who was a regular member of the Anglican parish in Farnham Royal, in England, before her death in 2010. Nicola abu Hattum: Ordained deacon in 1894, and served in the Church in Salt. He is described in a letter from an unnamed CMS Secretary in 1925, to him on his retirement, as coming from Suwier in Mount Lebanon to take charge of the CMS school (in Salt) in 1877, where “the present Church building was your school room.” The letter continues, “There was no residential clergyman, for the late Revd. Khalil Jamal was not transferred from Jerusalem until 1878. The medical mission, confined to outpatients, was only opened in 1884. You were ordained in 1894 to take the place of Mr. Jamal who was moved to Nazareth.” (Archive ref: G3P/L15 p. 252). Ibrahim Baz: His name appears in Frederick Klein’s reflection in the “Jerusalem Bishopric Documents” as the local tutor working at the “Preparandi Institution” in Jerusalem with the Revd. John Zeller, when it opened in 1876 with eleven students. It was intended that this institution would increase the number of local evangelists, teachers, and ministers. The 304
St Francis Magazine Vol 8, No 2 | April 2012 reflection speaks of Ibrahim Baz as “highly spoken of” (“Documents”.p73). Suleiman Nasser: His name does not appear among those ordained in the CMS registers. However, he was in ElHusn from around 1878, before moving in around 1886 to Khorabah in the Hauran to oversee the work in the schools there. The schools were closed down by the Ottoman authorities a year later and he left the area. 5.2 The pioneering reports There now follow a number of first-‐hand reports, mostly written by Chalil Jamal, whicha are all taken from the CMS archives. It is not exactly clear whether these reports are (local?) translations into English from an Arabic original, or whether they express the original words of their authors; whatever the process that brought them to be part of their presence in CMS archives, they surely retain the authentic flavour of a first-‐hand witness to the events they describe. The first one is dated Jerusalem Sept. 7th 1869, and describes a journey made across the Jordan – to Salt initially, but also to the Christian community at Fuheis which would be at a higher, and therefore healthier, altitude. This Christian community is very much alive today (2012). On the 26th June last, I left for Salt passing through Nablouse and after 4 days stay there in wait for a caravan I left for Salt leaning upon the Almighty’s arm; arrived in Salt early in the morning of the 1st of July crossing the Jordan in the dead of night. When at Salt I intended to leave for Jebel Ajloun on the 3rd of July in order to keep the Lord’s Day in one of the villages of Jebel Ajloun, …[but an] attack of a very hot fever confined me in bed for 10 days. During my illness, I thought that changing the air might do me good – therefore I left Salt (accompanied by my host Mr. Mutanes Kawar and two others; one a Protestant Christian, and the other a muslim), and went to visit the Fe-‐he-‐se-‐yeh 166 . They are living in a village called by their 166 That is, the people of Fuheis. 305
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