Selim united with the Church, but was afterwards suspended from communion for improper conduct, and joined himself to the Jesuits, so that Abla has had to endure a two-fold persecution from her Druze relatives and her Jesuit brother.

On her removal to Beirut she was disinherited and deprived of her little portion of her father's estate, and her life has been a constant struggle with persecution, poverty and want.

Yet amid all, she has stood firm as a rock, never swerving from the truth, or showing any disposition to go back to her old friends.

At times she has suffered from extreme privation, and the missionaries and native Protestants would only hear of it through others who happened to meet her.

Since uniting with the Church in 1849 she has lived a Christian life.