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The Women of the Arabs

CHAPTER VI
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The amount of good they have accomplished as teachers, in Abeih, Jerusalem, Deir el Komr, Hasbeiya, Tripoli, Aleppo, Mosul, Alexandria, Cairo, Melbourne, (Australia,) and in the Mission Female Seminary and the Prussian Deaconesses' Institute in Beirut, will never be known until all things are revealed.

I have received letters from several of them, which I will give in their own language, as they are written in English.

The first is from Salome, now the wife of the Rev.Prof.John Wortabet, M.D., of the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut.
"I do not consider my history worth recording, and it is only out of consideration of what is due to Mrs.Whiting for the labor she bestowed upon us, that I am induced to take up my pen to comply with your request.

I was taken by Mrs.Whiting when only six years old, together with Hannie Wortabet, who was five years old, to be brought up in her family, she having no children of her own.

Owing partly to the nature of the religious instruction we received, and partly to my own timid sensitive nature, I was, from time to time for many years, under deep spiritual terrors, without any saving result.


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