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A Pilgrimage. 179nearly 20,000, and nowhere else in Syria, so fav hovers 179. The Chuvch membevs ave 1,440, ofas I know, is theve snch a fine opporttinitjf to whom 153 were added last yeav. The Syvianpreach the Gospel. 'The native preacher tells Protestant community number 4,165. The nunimethat he counted 427 in the audience last even- ber of day schools in aU is 4,505. Workbig ining, in attendance on a preaching service. What harmony with the Amevicin Mission is a schoolwonld one not give to know who of those pvesent for Moslem girls, conducted by Miss Taylor.have begun to be the subjects of quickening and She has been working in Beyrout for 20 years,converting grace.' Other viUages in the Leban- and one of the many gratifying fruits of her lionare budding and bringing fovth fvuit. Two bor is, that in March last six of hev pupUs, ofof these, Sukel-Ghuvb and Shweifat (little lips), vavious ages, from 14 to 20, were baptized on awere visited by ihe Secretary, and he veports fa- profession oftheir faith, in presence of a goodlyvorably of both. In the former is a boavding company of Chvistian people—missionavies andhouse, containing 63 boys, whose obvious thirst visitovs. It was a touching aud solemn service,fov knowledge gives pvomise of gveat futuve ve- and will nevev be fovgotten by those present."suits through them. 'Yo show io what lavge pro- Our limited space compels us io reserve for aportions the Mission in Syria has now attained, it future issue all reference to the admirable vepovtsmay be mentioned ihat the American missiona- of missionary opevations pvesented at (7to>-c/j .45-ries are 87 in number, and ihe native Syrian la- semblies in Britain and in this eonntry.A PILGRIMAGE. and going up to Jerusalem, whence they begin aThousands visit Palestine every yeav ; some as touv of the Holy Land pvopev. But many touvtourists,either out of curiosity or to gain infovma- ists and almost all pilgvims land at Jaffa andtion regarding the lands of the Bible, and othevs forthwith pvoceed io Jerusalem. Jaffa is built onas pilgrims to pevfovm a reUgious act as being the slope of a hill facing the sea, and its foot isefficacious in atoning for past misdeeds and as- bathed by the waters of the Mediterranean. Thesuring a pasport to the elysian fieldsof the heav- city is surrounded by delicious g-ardens and risesenly country. A pilgrimage to Jerusalem is of with its stately minarets in the midst of a fovestthe fivst importance to an Oriental Christian and of palm trees, olive orchards, fig plantations,to most Roman Catholics, bnt in order that it orange groves and many other varieties of fruitmay be highly meritorious ihe pilgrim must be trees. There is no harbor at Jaffa, and there ispresent at high mass on Easter in the Church of a ledge oi rooks opposite the town, a few rodsthe Holy Sepulchre when the holy fire is said to from the shore, appearing a little above the surcomedown from heaven. To a Moslem a visit face and rendering debarkation in stormy weatherto Jerusalem is second only to a pilgrimage to very dangerous. The passengers are landed inMecca, and the Moslem who has visited fivst small boats and, occasionally, some of the frailMecca and then Jerusalem is considered to have craft ave capsized by the violence of the breakers.capped the climax in pilgrimages.We cast anchor heve one movning eariy in Mavch,Some tourists land at Alexandria, Egypt, pro- j^st aftev a stovm. Tbe waves were still roUingeeed thence up the Nile to Cairo and othev to a pvodigions height and bveaking over iheplaces of interest, and thence to the Sinaitic rocks in a most reckless manner. A stovm atpeninsula, traversing more or less closely the route sea is terrible indeed and awful to contemplate,of the children of Israel from Sinai through the but a storm near the shore, particularly amongwUderness and the countries adjacent to Pales- the rocks, is infinitely move terrible and appaltine,crossing the Jordan near the site of Jericho Img. As the wind was falling the passengers