13/16 Since that time numerous Protestant weddings have taken place in Hums, and a new order of things is beginning to dawn upon that people. His wife Leila, is a graduate of the Beirut Female Seminary, and has been for several years a teacher. Her father died in January, 1871, in the hospital of the Beirut College, and her widowed mother, Im Mishrik, has gone to labor in Hums as a Bible Woman. When her father was dying, I went to see him. Noticing his emaciated appearance, I said, "Are you very ill, Abu Mishrik ?" "No my friend, _I_ am not ill. |