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80 Mission Monographs.The child of many prayers, she yielded her heart last we climbed upon a rugged cliff and there ato the Saviour in eariy life, and, when called to our feet lay the harbor of St. Simeon of CrusaenterHis service in the foreign field,there was no ders time. To tbe east rose the mountaiQ ofhesitation. Ever since her appointment in 18t5, St. Simeon, and, flowing seaward through theshe has prosecuted her life-work with rare devo- plain, winding in and out gracefully, as if conscioustion. Her companion is Miss Maggie B. Edgar, of its historic burden, we saw the Orontes.Appointed in the Spring of 1886, she has been The little plain is largely alluvial and mustin the fieldfor only a short time, yet she has al- look very differently now from its appearanceready developed a singular aptness to distinctively when Antiochus held sway. The soil is fertilemissionary service. and gardens are becoming abundant. Just nowThe attitude of these two young ladies in the the craze is in the mulberry direction and manypicture is a true representation of their intimate acres of ground are given up to its cultivation.relations. As we say, they seem to have been We crossed the river by a ford and then crossedmade for each other and are welded together by a part of the plain, now dry with the summer'sa common consecration to the same Lord. We heat and sunshine, and so reached a hillock aboutwish for them many years of joint-service under which the river has brought the fertile soil tiU itHis leadership and for His glory.is only a finger telling of tbe ruggedness of theplace now so beautiful with fruitful gardens OnSUADEA.this hillock stands the largest house in the place.Syria affords so much old material of historic We enter the grounds and stand on an eminencevalue that we are prompted in searching for the slightly raised above the plain and affording aold to cut through and entirely disregard the fair prospect quite different from any other to benewer strata of life which we find here. But to seen in Syria. We looked down upon a great exthetraveller who passes through the land from panse of verdure and saw no village. InsteadJerusalem to Aleppo nothing is more noticeable each little field had its own low house of onlyhan the new elements which have so lately entered °^^ story usually, but roofed not with mud aa isinto the whole life of localities.tiie custom here, but with tiles made in the vicin-Jerusalem with hundreds of thousands of ity- Elsewhere in Syi'ia houses are always hudpoundsdrawn from all Europe is taking on the died together in groups but the ideal picture ofaform of a new city, with churches, hospitals, con- home with its own vine and fig tree may be seenvents, and monasteries. here literally. Each house in its own garden isBeirut -with its boulevards, water and gas works almost hidden bythe surrounding foUage, but theis almost Europeanized. While Horns and Hama roof fells us of life hidden there among the trees.in the river Orontes valley are getting to see the Beyond the garden stretches the plain, and atlight of a western work whirled round by the fhe edge ot the plain breaks in a white foam thewheels of a daily diligence. In each place indi- baffled waves of the Mediterranean. The bnadvidualenterprize has done much, and itwas upon ing just behind us is very different from the rest.one special scene of such labors that we looked '^''^o stories and a French tiled roof give an undownfrom the summit of Mount Casius, when we mistakably aristocratic appearance in this land.saw Suadia lying in ihe plain below. We de- Here stands one of tbese places where individualBcended Casius on the northern side, and the outer effort is seen in its results. This building is usedworld was lost in the many valleys and mountains to-day as a scbool for boys and is under the carewe traversed above the plain now reached. At of the American Mission at Latakia, now repre-