She told me how kindly she had been treated by President Bliss, of the Syrian Protestant College, and of all the good things the college had done.
What a blessing the college was for the people of Beirut! Many unfortunate people were saved from prison and hardships through the intervention of President Bliss.

He never tired of rendering service, wonderful personal service.

But alas, even his influence and power began to wane.

The American prestige in the country was broken, and the Turkish Government no longer respected the American flag.

An order issued from Constantinople demanded that the official language of the college be Turkish instead of English, and Turkish officers even dared to enter the college premises to search for citizens belonging to the belligerent nations, without troubling to ask permission from the American Consul.
[ILLUSTRATION: HAIFA].