Yet it is somewhat remarkable that in our little Church there is so small a proportion of females.

Unhappily, only one of our native brethren is blessed with a pious wife.

Some of them are surrounded with relatives and friends whose influence is such as to hinder rather than help them in their Christian course, and in the religious training of their children." This difficulty still exists in all parts of the Protestant community, not only in Syria, but throughout the Turkish Empire, and probably throughout the missionary world.

The young men of the Protestant Churches at the present time endeavor to avoid this source of trial and embarrassment by marrying only within the Protestant community, and the rapid growth of female education in these days gives promise that the time is near when the mothers in Syria will be in no respect behind the fathers in either virtue or intelligence.

The Beirut Church now numbers 107 members, of whom 57 are men and 50 are women.
In 1851, Miss Anna L.Whittlesey arrived in Beirut as an assistant to Dr.and Mrs.De Forest, and died in a year less one day after her arrival, beloved and lamented by all.