The case was the more remarkable, as it was one of the first cases in Syria in which a woman has taken such a decided stand against picture-worship and saint-worship, in advance of the rest of the family.
In the year 1863, before the ordination of Pastor Sulleba, there being no Protestant properly qualified to perform the marriage ceremony in Hums, I went to that city to marry two of the Protestant young men.

It was the first time a Protestant marriage had ever taken place in Hums, and great interest was felt in the ceremony.

It is the custom among the other sects to _pronounce_ the bride and groom husband and wife, neither giving an opportunity to spectators to object, nor asking the girl if she is willing to marry the man.

The girl is oftentimes not consulted, but simply told she is to marry such a man.

If it pleases her, well and good.