One day Dr.De Forest asked, "Why don't you plant a tree ?" "We shall not live till it has grown," was the reply.

"But your children will," said the Doctor.

"Let them plant it then," was the satisfactory answer.
My first visit to B'hamdun was made in February, 1856, a few days after my first arrival in Syria.

On Sabbath morning I attended the Sabbath School with Mr.Benton, at that time a missionary of the A.B.C.F.M.

One little girl named Katrina Subra, then nine years of age, repeated the Arabic Hymn "Kumu wa Rettelu," "Awake and sing the song of Moses and the Lamb." She was a bright-eyed child of fair complexion and of unusual intelligence.