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90 Ifeiiifi if Jli.iKiiiiKini Intelligeiice.respects, with the exception ofa home, this school At the beginning of this school year, September15th, we removed tbe school to the house inis in a prosperous conditiou.It might be well just here, to glance at the town formerly occupied by the late Dr. Dodds.history of this scbool. It had its origin and first This lifts a most fearful responsibility from thosehome in Bhamra under the care of the Rev. S.Lyde, and is in reality the gerin of the LatakiaMission. At bis death, the school carae underthe care of our lamented predecessors, Drs. Doddsand Beattie, and soon after it was removed toLatakia. When the bmlding for the girls' scboolwas erected, it bad its home in one end of it. In1871 it was returned to Bhamra and put undertbe care of teacher Yacob Jeredeny, but it wasfound that the friends ofthe boys had to be boardedas well as the boys themselves, which provedtoo expensive, and it became necessary to dismisstbe large boys, and the small ones were broughtto Latakia. But boys will grow, and soon there-were large boys again and a room was hired intown for tbem, the small ones remaining in tbegirls' boarding school.In 1880 it was decided that a boarding .schoolfor boys and giris could not be be carried ou in thesame building in this country, and, as we had nomission building for the boys in Latakia, theywere sent to Suadia, Mv. and Mrs. Easson goingwith them. In the fall of 1882 the school wasdivided into two grades. The primary pupilsAvere left iu Suadia, and the advanced ones werebrought back to Latakia. The firststory of thedouble mission dwelling- bouse wa,s vacated tbatthey might be domiciled tbere. Tbey vvere separatedfrom tbe girls' school as well as circumstanceswould permit. But there wa.s only a wall betweenthe two playgrounds, and from the flatroofs of therooms of the girls' school, yon could look downinto tbe boys' playground, and from the same yardyou could look into one of the girls' sleeping- dormitories.We gave this place a fair trial for three years,and we found that tbe good name of our schoolsand we may say ofour inission deniaiided a removal.W'e also found that for the good of our boysboth ill spiritual and temporal things, we neededto teach them some trade, whereby they conld earnan honest living- after leaving- school, in case theywere not needed as teachers, or were iiica.pable ofserving tbe mission in that capacity. Hence inour last report, we laid the matter befin-c you, askingfor at least $5,000 to erect a suitable buddingfor our boj-s' school, including an industrial department.to whom has been intrusted the keeping of thegood name, as well as the training of giris for theservice of Christ.But the lease for this house will soon be oat,and, even if it could then be obtained, it would notbe without cost, and the place is too small, sothat we now renew our request for a Home for ourboys' school with an industrial department included.You thus see that our scbool bas wandered fromplace to place for more than thirty years, and stiillives. What then might we uot expect if providedwith a good comfortable bome ?Each trade will need an extra $300 or $400 forthe firstyear, after whicb we think it will pay allexpenses, aud perhaps be a source of income tothe mission. But if you do not wish to begin athing of wbich you do not see the end, please donot forget that our boys' boarding school is a homelesswanderer, and during the coming year give ita good comfortable home.The Suadia station has had quiet, pereevering,encouraging work carried on in it throughout theyear. We have bad an average of twenty-two boys intbe boarding school, and twenty iu tbe day school,forty-two in all. Tbe first part of the year, thestation was under the care of our licentiate andhis efficient vrife, assisted by one teacher whoboarded in the scbool, and looked after the boysout of school hours. During the latter part of theyear, teacher Ibrahim Jukky and his wife havehad charge with an assistant as above. LicentiateYacob Jeredeny preached on the Sabbath,and held prayer meetings and Sabbath School,also prayer meetings on Thursday evenings. TeacherIbrahim has kept up the same number of services,substituting a prayi-r meeting for a sermon.The change iu the oversight of this sohool wa.«brought about by tbe needs of the Latakia Mission.Wc felt that teacher Ibrahim could take goodcare ofthe statioii at Suadia, and our boys'.schoolin Latakia needed just such au overseer as ourlicentiate would make. .Vlso we felt it would bebetter to have a licensed preacher to preach tothe })eople when Mr. Eassmi was called away tothe mountains or Suadia, as he ofteii is, in order tooversci- the work, and in-eacb to the people.