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160 Mission Monographs.appointed by the Sultan. The principal porta, with thn rest of the world.—Chambers' Ency'as well as the principal towns, are Cerina, clopedia.Famagosta, Larnica, Limasal and Baffa. ,j,2:e ENEMY AT WORKOriginally peopled by the Phoenicians, andafterwards colonized by the Greeks, Cyprus Rev. G. M. Mackie, a missionary of tbewas by the latter people dedicated to Venus, Church of Scotland, on returning to his workwhose most celebrated temple was at Paphos, among the Jews in Beirut, wrote home renewBaffa. It belonged successively to the speoting the opposition that gospel laborersPersians, the Egyptians, fhe Romans and the have to contend with in iSyria. The letterGreeks of the lower empire. It was one of the from which the following extracts are made iafirat places, out of Palestine, that received the dated November 30, 1887:gospel, and was visited by Paul and Barnabas In Scotland I had been privileged to adontheir missionary tour. In the time of the dress large congregations on the subject ofCrusades it was taken from the Saracens by Jewish Mission work, and wherever I hadRichard I. of England, and given by him gone I had met with such warm interest andto the princes of the Lasignar family, who held hearty encouragement, both from ministerait till the year 1570, when it was conquered and congregations, that I bagan to feel thatby the Turks. Prior to the Russo-Turkish missionary work nowadays had the sympathywar in 1878, the island formed a pashalic of of the world at Ita back.TurKey, of which the capital was Nicosia. In But a few days in Beirut dispelled such1878 it was conveyed by treaty to Great Bri- soothing reflections. There with you in Scottain,the Sultan retaining the sovereignty of land a missionary can enjoy the sunshine ofthe island and receiving annual payments of general approval; but here the nostrils soonmoney in plaoe of its revenues; in 1887 it was begin to tickle with the smell of the battlecededto Great Britain.cloud.Since the discovery of rich and abundant re- Among the Jews, for example, I foundmains of antiquity in this ioland, increased in- that they know about the Rabbinowitz andterest has been taken in its eventful though Lichensteln movements among their brethren,somewhat obscure history. Its antiquities but that they had their own accounts and exhavespecial importance as illustrating some planations, in whioh the whole work is rapudstagesof the early history of sculpture and lated and caricatured. Caricature, however,the kindred arts. The population in 1881 was requires some acquaintance with the original.185,916, of whom 80,000 are Greeks, 30,000 I found that for more than a year theTurks and the remainder Roman Catholics, Jesuits had been carrying on an inoesaant pa-Maronites and Armenians.—Lippincott's Gaze- per war—altogether one-sided, I am thankfulteer of the World for 1888.to say—againstthe American Mission here.There nre mauy proofs of progress in Cyprus. Their Arabic newspaper, published weekly.The breadth of land sown is annually on the every week rakes up something that can beincrease and greater care is bestowed on its made to loDk like error or indisoretiou on thecultivation. But especially noteworthy is the part otthe Protestant missionaries ; and wherefact that in 1871 Nicosia waa, by meana of a this fails, every kind of personal impertinencesub-marine cable to Latakia, on the Syrian is indulged in. Here also there is the concoast,brought into telegraphic oommunieation solation of knowing that, while attacking