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150 Letters from Chrisfian Workers.at Home and Abroad.Accordingly M. lessa went as fav as the divisionline to meet tbem and bring them ovev. Themen and women walked and cavvied the children,while theiv beds and provisions fov the way wevebvought on donkeys. M. lessa pvovides voomand food fov the [leople while at Eldany, fovwhich they each pay a small sum. A veportreached them during Fviday that they would bewaylaid on theiv vetuvn Monday, and they talkedof going back that night, but 'Six. Easson pevsuadedthem to stay until Sabbath night, anci onhis pvomise to go with them they finallyconsentedto wait till aftev the Monday sevvice. Befovethe sevvice on Satuvday aftevnoon a numbev ofteachev Ibvahim's pupils vecited Psalms aud chaptevsfvom the Bible. They are tagged, wildlookingAvabs, some of them, but it does onegood to heav them repeat such chapters as Matt.5, Eph. 3 and 6, Rom. 12, and John 3, vemembeviugthe promise that God's wovd shall not vetuvnto him void, and that it is " quick and powevful."Sabbath morning- we arvanged the schoolvoom,in which all the sevvices weve held, for thecomniuuion. It was used at night asa sleepingvoom fov some of the company. The beds wevepiled up in one cornev, on the wall hung- one ovtwo guns, the pulpit Avas a table with a pillowlaid on it and the whole coveted with a whitecloth. We covered a native chest which stoodin the voom with a vug, and ovev that a whitenapkin, aud so improvised a table fov the ele­the hardest thing to learn is to be w-illing to feelments. A low table extended down the ceutve that I can do so Uttle, Please tell the next ladyof the room, and mats weve spvead ou the floov that comes that the fivstthing she wiU find is thatat eithev side as seats fov the communicants. Onv she is not worth a cent till she can talk. Misscommunion wave was not silver, liut ovdinavy Wylie is a most pleasant companion, both to liveglasses and plates; nov weve ouv people dvessed and to wovk wich. She has been thoughtful andas they would be iu ouv countvy on such an occasion.But theiv decent, cleanly appeavance and vcvy comfortable togetbev.considevate fov me as a sistev could be, and we arethoughtful, intelligent faces weve cfuite a contvast What wovk I cau do I enjoy very much, andto the people wdio came in to witness what was hope that I may be able soou to give move help.going on. Theve weve jn-esent iu all twenty-fouv Miss Evadna M. Sterrett writes from Mersine,April 29th, 1887 :native communicants. One uew membev was veceivedand two childven baptized,A few minutes ago as Mrs. Metheny sat^Monday movning evevyone A\-as astiv betimes, meditating and wondering whence a telegramMv. Easson packed evevytbing veady to load onthe auiinal, and at half-past six tbe usual closiu.^sevvicesof tbe commnnion season weve held; aftevwavdwe all bveakfasted, and shovtly afteveight o'clock the B'hamva people weve veady tostavt with Mv. Easson, M, lessa and two of theyouun- teachevs as guavds, Evevy man iu thecompany was avmed, but Mv. Easson's pvesencemade them feel move secuve, as they knew no onewould dave to touch him, ov them while underhis protection. Conducting a communion in themountains of Syria is not quite so easy as in ourchurches at home, Mr. Easson had, of course,no assistant in the services, and on Mondaypveached befove breakfast and aftevwavd took hispeople an hour on the way home, came back toEldany, where Mrs. E., little Mizzie and I werewaiting, and rode down to Latakia, and that ona very wavm day. But to have the people comeout as they did, though in some dangev, was enconvaging,and no one who witnessed the wholeservice could help feeling that the past years otthe preaching of the gospel of Christ among thesepeople are now bearing some fi-nit. But the fieldis wide, these mountain villages ave many, theirheathen shrines ov holy places are "on every highhill and nnder every green tvee," the people arein davkness, and the gleams of light ave yet fewand fav between. Tbe outpouving of God's spiritis greatly needed, both upon the people and thewovkers heve and at home befove " Lebanon shallbe tiivned into a fvuitful field and the fvuitful fieldshall be esteemed as a fovest."In my Avabic studies I am, I think, makingsome pvo.gvess, but not neavly so much as I wouldlike. I find it quite difficult. Do you vemember-wvitiug to me that a new missionary might expectto have some nnpleasaut duties to pevform ? bntmight come concerning our coming friends, instepped the "Telegraphie" (the man who deliversthe telegrams) bearing one from Mr.Miller, telling of their sailing to-day. Itreached us C:45 P. M. We are delightedto hear that a physician has at last been ap_