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We are indebted io Mrs. Metheny, of Mersine,for the foUowing extracts from her diary:very good.' Then I sang for them some versesof the 22d Psalm, and they asked us to singmove, so we finished it." After all she may bethe means of bveaking down the prejudiceagainst us.S4th.—-Wednesday and Thursday Doctor spentas usual in Adana. To-day he had an interviewwith the Governor-General, and found him ableto talk Arabic, so that he did not need an interpreter.He received him very politely and gavehim a letter to his School Board (which, by iheway, is not legally constituted). Miss Stervett'sdiploma, as head teachev, was presented, and thebooks in nse in the school. These latter he saidhe would call in his teachers to examine, and the'' girl" would have to come and be examined.Here Doctor's intevpvetev iutevposed, and saidthat she was a lady just like the one who hadchavge of the school theve in Adana, and hevMarch 19th.—Doctor yvas telegraphed for togo to Tarsus. The irain was gone, and he hadsch ool jnst like that, and they had not vequiredto take a carriage. To-morrow we wUl have toher to be examined. " 0, well," then they wouldhave prayer-meeting instead of preaching.wave that point. This interpreter used to be^Ist.—Yesterday evening Moses came andDoctor's dragoman, and is now^ the official governmentlawyer, and is glad to assist us in anywas disappointed io find Doctor away. Doctorgot back this morning ; his patient proved toway.be Mr. Dibbak's youngest child, who was ill withTo-night, just as we were ready to vetive, MosesMoritz came in. After talking a little. Doc­epilepsy. Doctor preached in the Fellah quarterin M.Yusef Jedeed's house. Lulu Jedeed hastor said, " we do not differ about the attributes often little girls in school. The daughter of Imthe Messiah." The question for you is, " Has heIbrahim, the blind woman in school, came withcome, or is he to come yet ?" " Yes," he saidher little child from Tarsus to visit her mother,(his English is not very fluent), " I find in thebrother, and sister. They came up to call on nsI3ook that he has come ; aU the Book teUs methis evening, and the old lady was telling somehe has come, and my heart tells me so." Thenof her experience with her Ansairiyeh friendshe brought a difficulty to be solved. "John thehere in Mersine. She said she told them that weBaptist, when he baptized Jesus, said. This is hewere here specially for the Fellaheen ; that allof whom I spake, etc. He saw tbe dove descendour teaching was good ; we taught them not ioon him, and heavd the voice fvom heaven, howhe, or swear, or steal. They said, "What dowas it, then, that aftevwards he sent to ask Jesusyou get to eat ?" They are taught to believeif he was the Chvist ?" It was explained to, himthai we make them eat pork. " Everything thatthat the pvophets weve not always nnder tbe specialinspiration of the Spirit. John, like the dis­is good," she told them. " If a Christian and aPeUah were quarreling, whose pari would theciples of Christ, had not a very clear idea of theDoctor take ?" asked one. " Oh !" she said,spiritnal character of Christ's kingdom. He himselfwas in prison, Christ had not set up a throne," there was such a thing happened one day, andhe took the pari ot the Fellah." " Wondevful !and had no followers bnt a few fishermen, andwonderful!" they said. I suppose she referred to,Iohn's faith had perhaps sunk low, so that hean occasion when he interfered to prevent a railroadoflicial who was abusing a poor young fel­sent to inquire, " Art thou indeed the Chvist?""Ah 1 yes," he said, "just as Job ; sonietimes helow whose ox-cart had got stuck on the track.speak good words, sometimes he teU God yon no"Then," she said, "I had Saada (her littlegood for me." Then he said, " Let us look atdaughter) read to'them from the Gospel, and theythe llth chaptev of Isaiah." He opened the He-said, ' Is that ihe book of the Christians ? It isbvew Bible, veading and translating as he wentalong io the 10th verse. " Now," he said, "itsay when the Messiah come this will be, but-\yenot see this." " You know," Dv. said, "the wolfand the lamb do not mean beasts." " No," heintervnptecl, "I know, of course, when God speakhe speak good wovds, he not speak foolishness. Iundevstand that." Then Doctov went on to explainto him that though Chvist himself had come,his kingdom bad not come. Then he told himour doctrine of the mUlennium. Before he wentaway something was said about his employer'sdislike io his coming- here. "He is not veryglad," he said. " I was going to come just aftevsupper, and he said, ' Why do you study the Bible? Do you find that Christ has come or not ?'