[The Women of the Arabs by Henry Harris Jessup]@TWC D-Link bookThe Women of the Arabs CHAPTER VIII 9/19
Lebanon, and the eighty iron bedsteads from Birmingham, England.
The cistern, which holds about 20,000 gallons, was built at the expense of a Massachusetts lady, and the portico by a lady of New York.
The melodeon was given by ladies in Georgetown, D.C., and the organ is the gift of a benevolent lady in Newport, R.I. Time would fail me to recount the generous offerings of Christian men and women who have aided in the support of this school during the ten years of its history.
Receiving no pecuniary aid from the American Board, the entire responsibility of its support fell upon a few members of the Syria Mission.
Travellers who passed through the Holy Land, sometimes assumed the support of charity pupils, or interested their Sabbath Schools in raising scholarships, on their return home, and a few noble friends in the United States have sent on their gifts from time to time unsolicited, to defray the general expenses of the Institution.
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