At that time there was no children's hymn book in Arabic, and I asked Mr.B.to promise the children that when I had learned the Arabic, I would translate a collection of children's hymns into Arabic, which promise was fulfilled first in the printing of the "Douzan el Kethar," "The tuning of the Harp," in 1861.

Katrina was the daughter of Elias Subra, one of the wealthiest men in the village, who had just then become a Protestant.

She had been interested in the truth for some time, and though at the time only eight years old, was accustomed during the preceding summer to tell the Arab children that she was a Protestant, though they answered her with insults and cursing.

At first she could not bear to be abused, and answered them in language more forcible than proper, but by the time of my visit she had become softened and subdued in her manner, and was never heard to speak an unkind word to any one.
She undertook, even at that age, to teach the Greek servant girl in the family how to read.

One day the old Greek Priest met her in the street and asked her why she did not go to confession as the other Greek children do.