This must be done, if at all, by the missionary's wife or by Christian women devoted especially to this work.

It was true in 1834, and it is almost equally true in 1873.
The Arabs have a proverb, "The tree is not cut down, but by a branch of itself;" _i.e._ the axe handle is of wood.

So none can reach the women of Syria but women.

The Church of Rome understands this, and is sending French, Italian and Spanish nuns in multitudes to work upon the girls and women of Syria, and the women of the Syria Mission, married and unmarried, have done a noble work in the past in the elevation and education of their Syrian sisters.

And in this connection it should be observed, that a _sine qua non_ of efficient usefulness among the women of Syria, is that the Christian women who labor for them should know the Arabic language.