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Mission Monographs.Protestant work, they are laying a mine under same as we have, and that what meets ourstheir own position, and furnishing explosive will meet tne irs too.proof that they are little belter than political What one finda in the loasr run isthat theinteriopers, and devoid ot Chriatian spirit. people do not yield to ua, but they yield toMeanwhile, howeve-, these abusive alan- what they see tUat we yield to. Aud what iaders are widely read, and to thg Syrians they true for the missionary ia true, iu a widehave aU the charm of detraciion connected for sense, for the Churcn that sends him out.the firsttime with names that they have al- When we preach ouraelvea, pernonally orways considered as above reproach. ecclesiastically, we preach foolishnesa; butAnd, lastly, comes Canon Isaac Taylor, when, for the Gosp^d's sake, we riae abovewith hia cheap magnanimity about Islam, offer- our diffdreuces into the higher level of Christingspermaceti suggestions about the inner- ian union—in work and worship—we find thatmost of all bruises tor the spiritual welfare of people look straight into that, and understandAfrica. His Wolverhampton address was it, and yield to it. Perhaps the time mayprinted by the Moslems in Constantinople, and not be far distant when the hope of winninghas also found a place in the Moslem news- for Christ His Gentile inheritance will makepaper in Damascus and in that of Beirut, the divided host at home spring forward withOne Moslem editor calls upon the faithful to a great cry of self-renunciation. What ahear what'the Engliah monk'says about pulling down of strongholds that would leadthem. Where Canon Taylor describes Islam to !as a b'otherhood, the editor puts in paren- I alao found, on my return to Beirut,the-sia,' Wculd to God it were so ;' and where that the Turkish Government is looking intothe addresa claims for Islam advantages aa to our missionary work with the sharpeat andprohibition of gambling, etc., the editor adda moat suspicious scrutiny. The books pubjishag.iin,'Yougamblers, bear this, and may God ed at the American Mission Press here havejudge you 1'all to be sentto Damascus, and lie acoumulat-It is perplexing to tbink how such an ad- ing there until they be examined by thedress eould be rend and listened to in a Christ- official, and get the Turkish pass nr approvalian land, where tbe missionary meaning ofthe stamped upon each book. Ir, threw the workGospel is understood. Charging a society or back some six or seven montha ; but tbu dtcommitteew'th indolence and extravagance lay has been more than reoompenaed. Tbeis onH thing, but making a speculative stab B'blea, Pilgrim's Progress, Schongherg Cottanto the ultimate miaaionary aim ot the Gos- i^ami/^, and a boat of othera, can now go out'pel is another thing. It does not matter ao intothe world aa hooka thatthe SuUHnrncouiifluehto us out here in Syria, because we aro mends to hia subjeota—Moslems, of ooar.-se, aathankful for anything that will start a rum well as others.bling and cracking among the iceberg forms This gives alittle id"a of the atmoaphereand traditions of these Jews, Moslema, that wo breathe out here.and Eastern Christians. We feel tbat insideof all this there muat be an open polar sea ofr.umanity, ifthe Gospel ship could only find aTHE COVENANT PROMISE.Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathenway intoit; that these people have religioua for thine inheritance and tHe uttermost partsreeds and desires and destitutions just the of the earth for tby possession.iqi