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pointed to Latakia. . . Many would joinour little churoh were we to widen the gate.'There is nothing new io write concerning theschool question here, except that the ProtestantDoctor, who is a member of the Board,remarked to Dr. Metheny a few days ago that^he thought that the Turks were about tiredof the question at issue, and that we are notlikely to be interfered with, should we proceedto open np new schools.We sent a teacher to Adana io iry thereagain to-day. . . Owing to the lack otNotes and Reviews. 151I wrote io you last week telling you of be so many English speaking people here forMoritz Greenberg's departure for America, it. The congregation joined heartily in thebut I had not then time to tell you of our servicesthe previous Sabbath. We had appoint­gentlemen left 2^ Napoleons ($8.65) for thesinging, and afcer the service some of theed Sabbath the 18th for his baptism, and ar­mission work.ranged to have an English service, as he knowsno Arabic. On Saturday morning a party ofgentlemen called off the French steamer,on their way to Tarsus, and after a pleasantcall promised to come ashore the next day.One was a minister of the Free Ohurch ofScotland, another an Episcopal minister, athird ofthe U. P. Church, aod a fourth oftheWesleyan, in Wales. With them were twoCambridge students. In the afternoon fiveladies, another Cambridge student, a brotherof the others, made us a call, and they alsopromised to come ashore. We appointed11:30 as the hour in order to give them timerain, the distress in these three cities is inereasing;in Tarsus a cow and a calf was soldfor less than a dollar and a half. The probabilitiesare ihat poverty will drive as many wore on the sea became so rough that weto breakfast and come ashore. As the morningpupils into school as we oan receive.hardly expected any one to come ashore.There has been more fever in school within Doctor went over the sermon in Arabic beforethe past two weeks than has been all winter ; the time for English service. When the hourthere is also much in town.carae a party ot twenty fromthe steamer wereThose oppressed Protestants in the village present and Mrs. Wartz of this place and hernear Alexandretta of whom I wrote you some two daughters. Doctor explained ihe 102dtime ago, have obtained redress from the Psalm from the 13th to ihe 23d verse, andTurkish Government, and ihe leaders in the preached from Luke 1:68th. After the baptismalservice we sang Psalm 72 from 17tbpersecution have been put into prison.In a letter, dated April 20th, Mrs. Methenydescribes an interesting service recently onoe more hear English preaching, and itverse to the end. It was very refreshing toheld in Mersine:seemed a strange providence that there should%^U^ miA"—The promised paper on Sulieman Daoud Taylor, pastor of Broadway Tabernacle,will appear in the next number.has kindly sent us his address on the Befi,exInfl'uence of Missions. This admirable addresswas read at ihe first convention of—On the evening of Sabbath, April 24th,Dr. and Mrs. Martin of Antioch, Syria, werethe Inter-seminary Missionary Alliance, andcalled to pari wiih their only child. After awas'printed at the time in its oflaoial report;brief illness little Paul passed away frombut, as many of our readers are not likely toearth to ihe eiernal world of peace and purity.have seen it, we gladly accept it as a contributionto Her,vld of Mission Ne-ws.While we deeply sympathize with ihe bereavedparents in iheir loss, we are sure ihat it iswell with ihe child. Death is his gain.—In reply to a request for an article onsome aspect of mission work, Dr. Wm. M.W^mm^.—The cbildren have undertaken to buy anorgan for Miss Sterrett's school in Mersiue.This idea originated with the little readers of