CHAPTER XII.
MIRIAM THE ALEPPINE.
The city of Aleppo was occupied as a Station of the Syria Mission for many years, until finally in 1855 it was left to the Turkish-speaking missionaries of the Central Turkey Mission.

It is one of the most difficult fields of labor in Turkey, but has not been unfruitful of genuine instances of saving faith in Christ.

Among them is the case of Miriam Nahass, (or Mary Coppersmith,) now Miriam Sarkees of Beirut.
From a letter published in the Youth's Dayspring at the time, I have gathered the following facts: In 1853 and 1854 the Missionaries in Aleppo, Messrs.

Ford and Eddy, opened a small private school for girls, the teacher of which was Miriam Nahass.

When the Missionaries first came to Aleppo, her father professed to be a Protestant, and on this account suffered not a little persecution from the Greek Catholic priests.