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Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.while and returns, he does not ask her wliere shehas been, but what she has brought with her.Their manner of life is very low, and theyseem to be without a god in the world, althoughsome people say they worship Fire, for they reverenceit very much.After a short talk with them about alms audtheir duty to work, they asked me, "Y^hat doyou do here ? Are you the man who gives outsilkworm seed?" I answered them, "I am aman whose work is to teach the people the Y'"ordof God, which brings eternal life to the soul ofman." They were astonished at tbese words. Ithen spoke to ihem from the Gospel and showedthem that all mankind are sinners and from oneparent, and that all are in need of salvation.Some confessed themselves sinners, but otherswere silent, for being ignorant as the dumbbeast, they did not understand.to Jesus Christ as the Saviour, and told themthat He had given His Word that all who wouldbeheve on Him should be saved.May God open their eyes that they may seethe true light.In a private letter from Miss Maggie B.Edgar, dated Oct. 4, we fiud the following interestingparagraphs :Miss Wylie and I spent part of our vacationin Kessab and, part in the Ansaireyeh mountains.I did not care for Kessab very much ; it is soclosed in by the mountains as to oppress one.And then it is either so warm or so windy thatone must stay indoors. It was very warm alsoin the Ansaireyeh mountains but tbere was somuch more to interest me there that I did not belonging to our own field. We are the guestsfeel the heat so much. El Murzh is tbe prettiest of Daoud Sulieman whose name of course is familiarto yon. He and his family are I thinkVillage I have seen. Owing to an abundance ofwater it has a fresh greenness that is very pleasantafter the barrenness that one sees every Living out in tbe mountains and among tbeir ownthe most interesting of aU our native brethren.where else. We were tbe guests of Mr. Daoud people, they are obliged to live Uke them, butand lived in regular native style. The family are so neat and cleanly compared with those aboutwere very attentive and kind indeed, seeming to tbem that it is a pleasure to see them. 'Theyfeel that they conld not do enough for our comfort.Daoud is one of the most interesting of our plastered inside for our accommodation. It is setbuilt a booth of branches woven together, andAnsaireyeh members, an intelligent, earnest and on four posts, planted in the ground and a ladderconsistent Christian, and also a man of great influencein his village.a half feet high, over it is hung a curtain whichreaches to the doorway which is perhaps two andIn the evenings we went to the fountains and we drop when we wish it closed. This curtain isMiss Wylie talked with the women, who gather made of reeds and hung by grape-vine stems.there to draw water. I do not think we met Two Uttle round holes in the wall serve as windows.The room is just large enough to allow any one during the time we yvere there who didof9A5not hear from her of their need of salvation fromsin and of ihe Saviour provided. Sometimes itseems almost useless for they are apparently sodegraded by ages of ignorance and sin that theyhave not tbe slightest desire for anything higheror better than the life they live. But perhapssome word wUl be seed dropped on goodground, which will bring forth fruit. Beingamong them one's whole soul goes forth in longingto help tbem. If our ministers could onlyrealize something of tbe state of these people itwould surely not be so difficult to get some oneto come.School has been in session now for three weeksand everything is going on nicely. One little girlwbo had been in school three years, I believe,and had not learned to read, we thought best notto receive again. A few days after scbool openedI pointed themv.'e heard tbat her father had sold her to a moslemhere in Latakia.P^eceiving pupils is one of the most difiicultparts of the work, I think During vacation,and especially two or tbree weeks before schoolopens, Mr. Easson and Miss Wylie are besiegedby applicants who argue, and plead, and demandsometimes, that their particular child be taken,and it is very difficnli often to say " No."We are glad to publish the following letterto a friend in Philadelphia :Latakia, Sept. 3, 1881.Dear Miss T.: Miss Wylie and I spent fourweeks of our vacation in Kessab with Mr. Easson'sfamily, then came back to Latakia, and are nowspending a week in one of the mountain villages