During the two months of their sojourn, they visited many places of interest to the Christian and to the Biblical student.1 For greater usefulness, they occupied separate rooms in the Greek Convent, where they received all who came unto them, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding them.

Mr.Wolff had a room on the side of Mount Zion, near the residence of the Jews, with whom he labored almost incessantly.

Impressions as to the unhealthiness of Jerusalem in summer were stronger, at that time, than subsequent experience justified, and the brethren decided, like Mr.Parsons, to pass the hot months on the heights of Lebanon.

Accordingly they left the Holy City on the 27th of June, going by way of Jaffa and the coast to Beirut, where they arrived on the 10th of July.

The southern portion of Lebanon, largely occupied by Druses, was then governed by the Emir Beshir, who was called Prince of the Druses, though himself a Maronite.