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A I^TIVE OF SYRIA, AT THE TEMPERANCE HALL, KALIFAl, N. S,^ 8ch, 9tii & 10th SEFTEMBEB, 1866. PHONOGRAPHIC REPORT BY H. OLDRIGHT. k,^ * PUBLISHED BY REftUEST. ■I HALIFAX : n FRINTSD AT THE ''MOiqiriWa JOURNAL" OFFICB. IP^.,^ V. » # » # :^.4 W #, ~Wi ^ ^^^ ll Monday, 8th September, 1856. Why Syria is mtereRting.-Baalbek-Tyre-Jerusalem-Petra-Mount CjU- vary.-Syrian Grapes,-Jericho,-Soclom and Gomorrah .-Inhabitants of Syria.-Bedouins or Ishmaelites,-State of the Jews,_Secret of Ene- land's greatness. (Long before the time appointed for the Lecture, the Hall which is capable of containing 1500 or 1600 persons, was densely crowded with a highly respectable audience. The Lec- turer, a young man of average height, with pleasing features, dark flashmg eyes, and black moustache, appeared in his native costume. He wore a loose skirt or petticoat of light drab doth, drawn m round the ancles, and fastened round the waist with a broad girdle or sash, a short jacket of the same material with the sleeves cut open halfway to the elbow and trimmed with braid, and a light blue flowered silk vest and neckerchief. ^ It is impossible to describe the exceedingly animated manner m which the Address was delivered, the Lecturer's utterance bemg very rapid, and the ideas enunciated being forcibly ^d graphically expressed by appropriate gestures. As these gesti- culations, of course, cannot be transcribed, the Lecture loses much of Its original force and beauty in any writtm report, liowever faithful and accurate.) Me. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen— tha? vn.? ^'^^^ ''''' ""^n^ ^ ^^" ^ ^^^^^ ^ ^«k of you, which is I can^tP^lT '''''r '^} "PP^"^^^ ""^^^ *^« ^^««^ «^the Lecture i can tell by your bright eyes and smiling faces when vou are • and some AvcTc thieves vpt !^ I .V, ' '^'''' ''^'' murderers, more so on the kd T^l. / ","'' '"'""'•'"g. but much feeling. That tear oUM^'. ^ '*•■ ™ ' ^""'^' *P"' "^ greatest conoue™ Nn„ „/ f- .i '" "^^ 3"""^"' ""^ t''«i'^ thisgreatT«Seeto!^.h; 1ll*^ '" ^^"^ '° >™S »» betwin Syria as a c^unS/anl N a Cr^' Se ''*""^ there just like those here/hills trel , an< so forth ThTin" Christianity the lan,l of thAff .'''T'' " '' *" ^'''^n^ "^ Joshua atL . hi: • "Chri t^,'a Im l'"' '^r' J"""''" ^'*^ born there — tl,.,^ rh • I •! ^^f .^,^"i there— Christian ty was manSer there von will .n! I ■ °-,^^ 3^^^ ^^^1 see the Thifirnrnqu^lrcSa^;^^^^^^^^^^^^^ rtht-h''^t^;,^S rrli::r Thi"? V-1 fcr Door neon e ^ AT ""^ ''™. *"■'<' ^t*"<^« ™«d as rooms |noC':!;-the^i^rXr'rs'';^r^trtr ^■'^ Christ born in a manirer'> Oh rWl...?! , Xu .?• ^^ poorest n„Vht ha^o" „„ 2S frno'tTon^^ SS^ ' £etl Kw Z thiul \t:.\''e^^-S. "' " '1/' '^ f. *""f *"'" there wa^ 1 hpll^n^ii, "^^ "^^^ ^'^^^^J believed that »; s yo'^crMeVrf '"futr^^'ir"""' '*■ ^ -^' not be so indifferent abont it 4*1 "^^'J'^'. *"' ^o" ^""l'' a stable, is it g^n. to ^ow-i M. AT, ^''^tianity born in ' '■ooin^ togrow/ Mr. Infidel says it cannot, it is --:? •"J mt of this l!,, T'fiZwed tl^ b„, "ew „ ^''™ ">» 'T'^^ f"*''^^ to porfbrm a ,vork «hich «il affect tt^ZC;! '"'; ^Tr'S disciples «cro of tlie lowest caste in ^ n i , ""'"•' ' ^^'« gatherers. Then J-, n loil, ,t M ^^ ■'"■, .*fl'e™ion and tax Was It like Islamism or Jlormonisra tint if JlnJTiV. I have all seen a fireplace filled with, l!, ™ P^' "^""^'f »• JOI a verv little fire ludeiTOath ft Tife f^ '"'? "^ T'*' '"* quired to be M-f^'^So wS yo^urTh! '7' •''"' ^°- Bmothercd „p ,^ith the iubbisl rfJhiHorH uTt'f: ,/' '' and only reouirPH to ho i.,./.^./ . a .^'^^^' '^^^^ it is there, Founded of 'ohrL Sn'^ fe'^a ^^TheTeef VT^- "' "> It was the remembrance of tl^, ,vh l?? the trees of Syria, and its; ;ri.s;£='?'', ■&S;iXr.' Can you think of them, without thinkingTSe G J R^S,' ♦ v,l,o so often tml their streets ? Can you think of the outers of (,a hloe, w.thout thinking of His ivonls. who sai, " BeTf goo cheer, ,t ,s I ; be „ot afrai,I !'' Can yon thik of f\f. of (W.Iee, without thinking of His first n,i^^ e t t' flZ any you lostarehvtivey By the sable dresses 1 observo among you, I presume many of you have "oriTofw^ You will not part with it, becau'se it is { iiow we come to tlie claims of Syria upon the Christian min.l In Syria you can never be an In&el. 'she si ow s^u k "ery When t !; T f '-"'^ "■™' "'^ "■"""">"" °f «'«1 « own wor7 ,Ih .n l"'0P';7«3 o»'0 upon the land, Syria was a grelt iieh, and powerful country. Tyre was then a great citv So Tras Jornsalcm Solomon the./reigned there in al Ws^„W The prophecies foretold the destrueTion of the i™„t'v ^Wlm beheved them? This is the age of Railways an™ TeLranhs hearS'the :r ^"''^ T"^- "^S""^ P"' «" " ^^^V » atfonTnd in »otW tri'"',!!'^ *'"=^ would suppose themselves in mothe. world-they would not believe that 1 ey were on this earth. Suppose you take them to the telegranh station »n J fn N^^^^Tan's %ir'' '''" '^ T"' =" "^o ^ » ^i "d Yon ^1 Vl 1 ^^ f^' ^'^' ""<• .™n send the message on. ^ou ask theru how soon they e.xpeot to have an answer. They say oh, in about three months. You tell them thlLwer % here already-they will not believe you. Now let us comnJf bSnon TW t ' ''^'t 1"', '''^'"^" ^<''*™«» «"J Anti?Le. nanon. That town was built by Solomon, and is so wonderful ^hat your architects are struck jumb with 'astonishment nv:;' ^g t Its buiUbngs are wonderful for their conception. Some ^,,t ™;t f '■' /'','" ^'S^' """^ 1^ feot wide. They were all wtrnnt fnlT^ ^ ,^" ""•= *^'"'' "'l *» P«l''*od l^r hey Sior b t ^ "'"'""is'- ^^'"y -^ fitto-J so closely to one pother that ycu cannot find the seam between them. It seems as If he city could not hare been the work of man. Ga'efor ~nirtT'""°w? '"1 '" '"^'g''*' «■"• the entllihtur: S antZ. t A ^^^' ''° r? *''"* "f ''^ You cannot luinK any longer A person asked me what I thousht of that not think at all, I could do iiotlimg bat just gane ! So it is with ? i ,4. tho belmWcr ot these miignifieont iiiins. An,l, nh,j is it that Syrias Arc nteetare is unequalle.l.. It was sai.l byft^outh h^l canno l,c, that there never hml beoa and never sCimT „n, .rhl?rsf'''"'"?'>- .Tl.ei,™t Queen orsS'iw th^ ■ er, ami t .ifc Aii<;lo-Saxon age is not equal to Solomon's al- though ,t ,s .^OOU yoa,-s in a<lvanee of it. ' Syria's ArSect,^ r^mirt!™/"^^'''''''"'' " """'"'""' y" -=-' «"•' L? But Syria was not only groat in Architeeture, but also irtht Arts and Sciences. The Si.lonians were celebm ed for B^unti^^ on glass, an art which bad been lost to the wor d S^ Ty am also were distinguished for the beautiful dye called Tynan purple which has been hitherto inimitable Svria T.as also .hstmguishod for her knowledge of AstronC and Navigation. This country was Snown to the^ great deal more. I can prove to you from the Bible that thk tXof . nt T, "' ™'' ^"'""'"^ "•■ Ishniaelites. You b k elt S "r Pr™' "8'=' Do you know what Baal- Bck cost .' Iherc is not a king, or a dozen of kin^s on the earti at present who could build it. " A whole quarry "(and n ^ mstanees three or four) was exhausted fir eveVston" th^re The persons who were quarrying the stones would go to a ndX roTkf h""' ™> f •'T1 rr ?» "• 40 feet until Ly came Ta rock Xhey would probably find it cracked, and therefore unfit fox their purpose. They would then go to another hill, and anothcT find rt'f f " ™"»g '>o™ so=me four or five hills, they wouH find a rock winch was sound. Then they had to cut shane form, and at last, carry the rock. Now, what do you'suppIS Zm^'\Tl t "™ f 'T I W''»"'>» «ost 0? the S bu Itbfl I ' ""i.""'' ."f "'<' entablature'? If this city an LL °'™' "" ""^ ""'fi'"' «*■ ""> Holy Land in honor o7 bcenf^fr.''T*r''rn '" T'^''' ^'''»* <lo you suppose mustharo hZl T!t "^^^^ ■^?'"P''^ *" Jerusalem-of §olomon's own cS;;".^ *\? 7''»1<' of Jerusalem !-Think also of the oth™ TWnV nf « f ""'?" '^"'"-'^f Baal-IIamon, Baal-IIanan, kl "ves ThinkTnn''ir*'''?'"^'*"''*'' /"' ^' ''"'' ^ thousand Ses of S^kmon ' ""'' ^"" "'^^ '"'™ "^' '^'^ "^ t^« fiit^" wl' r^rJ*"™ ^""""^'^ ""'' oome to Tyre, thatmerchan* city. What IS Tyre now? What said the TT^rrf of her? Tvre shall no longer be, she shall be like the top of a rock. I gjSt i, 8 a night in Tyro, a twelvemonth a-o last Murrj, Tl.o ni i / thirteen ,;e J:,, •:.:u';nrsri^:i-;''^'^r"''"^^ IS situated on a on^'ue of lii„l ^-l.i.) ■ ■ '•' '""'''■™ '""'< Won! .sai.l, ■■ It sl.aM Ve aT, e f' " "'" ,'"" "'^^ '"■'■ I'l*" niicfet of the sea KM, tf. '! ^pi-eadtug of nets in tho the fnlfilntc-ni o .Ik- pn 1 , , ?. 1'"f "'] "'■""'« '^y^'": «ith to write i>i,s cMvat.Jo ,";"''''''''■■ "'"'' ''^'' him that in ten ^t^^a^Tj^'^^tJ'l^'^'''^' '"" ^•"' that where this fine l,n;i,i;,„r.t '^ "",»''-' '"-' ">"'•«• water— th..ir hoats: >4 " u t ^ ''" ' J'^.t '7T" """''' "'■^'''"^ wouhl r.robal.ly say. ■ take t m n ., , T' ^i'"' '"■'■■• 'i'"" foretold aetuallv^;! ,U;'to,t''::,.n 'T ' ^'" "' "'"'» ^ num I was ! You V-T.'.t ' i ''"" *' ' «'"'' » "■"<= Wm; did you . "t . t ten, ■^' p""'"'"' l""""-"''^ "f I-™'' ■»■ Liverpool ai'thel^ot/y^, I'T SrVl ^i\'^'^ »'' peopled fron, Muenieia. andTt''. ev 1™, , "" /''''"";' ™^ countries, for she is eilled , , , pi V''>tshecolonizod other The siege of Ty v /,le "V ' f r .""i "'""'"■ "^ ■«*'»'«■ was formld of Ty re ,at an . ,? I "' , ','','"= '" '"■''"'■/• I' the du.st of her walls shou dV e ■ ,,ed T*""" ''"'• ''"" """ flourishing, city when the edict we ,,');. •^''''' '*?^ " S''«" ^nt* make thee^like^he top o at k «« tdf; e'^' V"'^ " ^ «"' nets „j,on, thou shalt be Cilt nnov''T ''''''' ''''''^•'''' besH-ed, tl,e first time hy Kehml,'^ '"" ' 3''n '""* '"''"« ful that their city wouhl^ t-d'e , rnl i ^ ''.'' ■'^■^'■"'"■' ^ar- outer wall, and-'bt^u.hV he s» Z^^/rt f r",'"' "•« was therefore oMLa'd to l„,;i.l '. ,„ . ^ ehuehadnezzar than the walls of the ct bt Ustil rldT'' F'"^* ''' '"«'"•-'• to make the battering r,^ns J Ly . ,» ^ Zf'T' T^ therefore, scraped the walls 'wi-ti, 1 or es^hoi ° ^r,:'''' n''''i Tyre were made of mud iu,t i;i.„ ,v If <• ? / "^ "'''"« "f (People are just be-^innL n fi 1 ' "'°*' "^ ««'«stopol. it by mere ehal-e t ■ fl.tl " t'^ • ^' "'"^ "" <^'t'°" ? Wa.^ so remarkably Mfinod'"'' '""''''^^'^^ ™-^^ ''^ J"«'-alIy and - w fi.?i 4a St- -'iS'i v:^:^^:^ mumm riic old tovm >e olden city ning, and saw ni(j<U'rn town the sea. Tho ijf nets in tho ^' Tyre, with t it led him ' I told you der water — ould anchor are." You 1, and put ii t if what I »vhat a wise of Lond 'U. >u sjieak of reland was )nized other of nations, li.storj. It ght against c"; and that a great and : ^" I will c to S])road was twice I'ians fear- I'ound tho 'hadnezzar it, higher ar enough s soldiers, e walls of ebastopol. are supe- '11'.'' Was "allj and iTounded 11 it. It ore early fore sun- the fii-st, 9 the second the thinl v all /-where is the tower of Antonia '— TTiere is Zion .'-where is Mount Moriah .' You search for even fallen rums,, but you can find none. The scene is one which really hnngs your heart down, i have often gazed with »)lea- sure upon tiic iyy covered ruins of England. I love that 'dear littlC; iond. aftectionate ivi/. It seems to say to the ruin '^ever mjud, 1 will be your friend throughout: thou-^h all forsake you. yet will I cling to you."' ° liut in looking upon Jerusalem you can see no ruins, not oven a single sprig of ivy to cheer you. It is a small town encum^ bered v ,th hovels. ^ As you gaze sadly upon it, the infidel says to you -surely, sir, this k not Jerusalem?'' But yes it i? Jerusalem for there is Mount Olivet where our Saviour retired to pray, there is the brook Cedron, there is the pool of Siloam there is Mount Zion, there is Mount Moriah. It /.. Jerusalem but oh, how changed! When we sec a rich man reduced to poverty, we feel sorry for him, and that is generally the feelin.^ one has on viewmg a decayed city. But that is ?wi the feelin? which you will have on seeing Jerusalem. The idea that filll youi- mmd is, that Jehovah has passed over the country An a^ful feeling creeps over you. When I first saw Jerusalem. I 'frr , ^^^^^'^ J'''^^'*^ "" '^^^^^ ^'"""^y ; ^" ft^ct I cannot tell you ^r//«^Ifelt, or A... I felt. Even the Infidel experiences the same feeling. Is this Jerusalem where Christ lived and died whore he was mocked, scourged and crucified? Is this the birthplace of Christianity? You pause and think. You feel as Jt you were following some dear friend to the grave Let nie now speak to you of the church of the Holy ^enul- chre at Jerusalem. This church is built over Mount Y^alvarv where our Saviour was crucified, and over what is said to behig His .Sepulchre. It was about the dome of this church that the late war commenced. It became dilapidated, and France and Kussia quarrelled about which of them should repair it It ig still unrepaired. (The lecturer then proceeded to describe the relative position of the several places of interest within the Church : tiie stone of unction, where the bodv of our Saviour was prepared for the tomb, the pillar of flagellation where He was scourged just before his crucifixion-the place where his gar- ments were divided-the cave where the cross was found, lc • but as It IS impossible to make this description intelligible with- out a diagram, w-e are obliged to omit it. This is the place which thousands of pilgrims come yearly to visit. It is impossible to describe one steeling on falling on your knees, (you do so in- voluntarily ) on the stone of unction. You feel as if you were Tn r saamM f 10 the immediate presence of the Great Saviour of Mankind. You do not stop to think whether the localities pointed out to you are really the places where the events descrilitd took place. It was foretold of Jerusalem that she t'-hould be a city of heaps, and it is literally fulfilled. Immense heaps of rubbish meet }ou every where. The church of England peo]>le when lajnng the foundation oi their church, had to dig through a heap of rubbish 50 feet in depth before they came to the rock. It is peculiarly a city of heaps. Suppose you enter a h rge town, and go into one house and find nobody there, then into another, and another, and so on, findmg alf empty. You go to tbo markets, to the halls, to the churclies, and find them quite «:ieserted, nobody to be seen. Will you not be astonished? There is ?. town in Syri^, with it3 houses, theatres, columns, and gate-ways all there, but without a single i- 'labitant. That town is the w^onderful Petra, the capital of Edom. The town is built at the foot of a hill, on a slope rising up from the valley. It was foretold of Edom that she i;bould be made bare, and that no man should live in her. Can the fulfilment of this be all fiction 'l Can it be mere chance ? We come now to a point still more striking. It is quite a common saying among you to tell one another to go to Jericho. Well, you need not tell me that, as I have been there. {Ltiagh- ter.) The town no longer exists. Where Jericho once stood, the wild Bedouin encamps. It is an excellent site for a town for business, for commerce, for agriculture, and yet nobody lives there. You have read of the cluster of grapes which the spies which Joshua sent forth, brought from the bi'ook of Eschcol. You talk of your grapes ! Why we would not call them grapes at all in Syria ; we would not give them even to pigs ! Our grapes are as large as Walnuts, very juicy, and grow in great abundance. I remember my brother John and myself bringing home a bunch one day on our way from school, which was so large that we W'ere obliged to carry it home on a stick be- tween us. Thousands of pilgrims visit Jericno every year, and ic >vould therefore be an excellent place for a hotel. If a large hotel were built, other houses and buildings would necessarily follow, and a town would soon rise up, but notw ithstanding this, and all the natural advantages of the place, no hotel is built. Two American fiirmers went to Syria some years ago to settle. They went over the whole country, and visited Jericho, but tin- ally settled, one of them at Etam, and the other at Jaffa. I asked them why they did not settle in Jericho. They said they did not know. I asked them if it were not a good place for (1 1 T I ..J-- mmmm MM 11 business, if they could not have made money there. Oh yes, they said plenty of money could be made there,— excellent stand for business. I asked them again, why they did not settle there. Their answer was, " Sir. we cannot tell you why we did jiot settle there."' But / can tell you friends. The Lord says "Cursed is the man that rebuilds Jericho," and no man dares to rebuild it. ^ You have heard of Sodom and Gomorrah. They were de- stroyed l)y fire, and the Dead Sea now occupies the spot where they stood. The Infidel says when you tell him this =' do you thiiik I am a fool, can fire become water? No, fire cannot be- come water, nor water fire." "Well, no matter, ' you say, " cto into this sea cad have a bathe, you need not be afraid, you ca?mot sink in it." Well, he goes in, comes out again, and be- gins to scratch himself You say " what is the matter sir, why do you scratch yourself, water cannot become fire, water cannot burn." But he says "I am burning, I am burning.;' |' Non- sense." yon say. "who ever heard of water burning." But friends he is really burning. Stephens says that long after coming of the water, after bathing in the Dead Sea, he felt like a lamb roasting over a slow fire. Let us now come to the people of Syria. They are still more interesting than the country itself There ought to be three races of people in Syria,— the Canaanites, the Hebrews, and the Ishmaelites. Now, I am u native of Syria, but I cannot tell you to what race I belong. Our country has been overrun, over, and over, and over again. It has been re-re-re-conquered, and each successive band of invaders has settled down in the country, and inter-married with its inhabitants. Suppose an Englishman marries a French woman, and a boy is the result,— that boy marries a Swedish woman, and a boy is the result and so on through half-a-dozcn different nations, and at last I am the remit— (Laughter.) Now of what race am I ? I am suro I cannot tell you. I suppose you would say that I would be the cream of the whole lot, so I suppose the people of Syria are the cream of the whole world.— (i^««<^/iier.} One of our most remarkable races is the Bedouins or Ishmael- ites. They will rob you wherevtr they meet you, but still will indignantly repel the charge of being robbers. They consider that they are merely taking back the share in the property of Abraham, of which their father Ishmael, as they think, was unjustly deprived by his brother Isaac. Still with all his faults the Bedouin is an honorable man. If you put your hand on the pole of his tent he will do everything in his power to serve you. t. MRIgli 12 If you have eaten bread and salt with him (their term for taking a meal with you) he will fight for you. and if nee<l be. die for you. We come now to the Jews. Their history is to us the most interesting of any. Syria was anciently the limd of the Jews. But where is Israel now I What says the Bible of him, '• His feet shall carry him far oif, he shall sojourn in a strange land, he shall bo called forsaken, he sliall bea servant to his brethren." The Israelites used to be like Englishmen of the present day. The Englisliman. when he is on tlie continent and has nothing particular to do amuses himself l)y strutting up and down half a dozen times a day. calling out, '-I am an Englishman, I am an Englishman.'" So the ancient Israelite used to exclaim. "I am of Israel — I am of Israel."' There are very few Jew3 now in Syria. The few tluit arc there are old men, who have come from other countries to die there. You ask me where are they? I answer, their feet have carried them far off. they arc sojourning in strange lands. ]\Iark the word sojourmn[^. You will meet a Jew in Austria and ask him about the political state of the country. He will tell you, sir, I am a stranger. I know nothing about it. You ask him where he was born. He will tell you in Austria. I'ou ask the same question al>out his father, grandfather, great grandfather. They were all born in Austria, and yet he is a stranger. He is sojouniing in a strange land. It is only in Christianized England that the Jew is beginning to feel himself not a stranger, and that is only a late occurrence. This is'a money loving age. Money will make the fool pas^ current in society. Gild the madman over with gold, and n<^body will believe that ho is mad. If a man has plenty of gold he does not want brains. In this age Copper pence are above common sense. But if a man be ever so wealthy, the moment you kij he is a- Jew, it is felt to be something against him. I rememl)er once in a steamer in the jNIediterranean, there was a gentleman, in ■whom, from his agreeal)le and gentlemanly manners, we all be- came very much interested. We went to the captain to find out •who he was. and discovered he Avas a Jew. One repeated to the other with an expression of disgust on his face, "sir, he is a Jew,"" and elegant and gentlemanly though he Avas, we all kept aloof from him as much as possible. The Bedouin says he would rather be a hog than a Jew. The Mussulman says he w^ould leather be a dog. I met a Bedouin driving an obstinate pig into Jerusalem. The Bedouin called out to him, cursed be thy father the son of a Jew. then, with another blow, cursed be thy S ir. r 13 for taking e. die for J the most the Jews. lim, ''Hia iiige hmd, hrctliren." esent day. as nothing down half man, I am exclaim. few Jew3 Avho have ! -wliere arc f. they arc inrr* You litical state er, I know . He will t his father, in Austria, vamze land, eginning to }currence. le fool pas:? and n<^body of gold he hay he is a- C'nil)er once itleman. in we all be- L to find out eated to the sir, he is a we all kept ys he would 3 he would jstinate pig rsed be thy irsed be thy mother the daughter of a Jew. Observe, it was the Jew whom he cursed all the time. It was foretold that Israel should be a servant to his brethren, and so he is, even as an usurer, what does he do but serve you. Provided you give him goot security and goot interest, he will give you the monish. — {Laiig/Uer.) He will serve you. The Bible is indeed true. Your Bible is built on every rock in Syria. One word in conclusion. That Christianity which rose from poverty and degradation, has spread over the whole world, and wherever it has gone, it has produced freedom, science, and refinement. The Anglo-Saxon is now at the top of the pyramid. They tell me it is the Anglo-Saxon blood which is the cause of this. I do not believe it. Bleed me and you will find that my blood is as good as yours. I can bring you as good Syrian blood as any Anglo-Saxon blood. You Anglo-Saxons do not com- prehend the cause of your greatness. We Syrians do. When years ago I saw in my own country the great ships of England, her goods all over Syria, and heard that she had sway over 200 millions of people, I thought she must be a very extensive country, that she must spread from pole to pole. W"ell, when I went to London, and travelled from there all over England, Scotland and Ireland in five days. I said to myself, can it be possible that this small Island rules 200 millions of people. I saw the tall chimnies of the manufactories of Paisley, Man- chester, and Birmingham, where goods are manufactured for the whole world. Speak to the Bedouin of Birmingham, and he knows not what you mean, but the scimitar which he carries was made there. The Syrian never heard of Glasgow, but the gir- dle which he wears is from that city. You find England's sol- diers at Gibraltar, the key of the Mediterranean. You meet her everywhere. She is, in fiict, the policeman of the whole world. Whence has all this arisen 7 Three hundred years ago, England was a third-rate power. Even paltry Spain made her tremble at that time. You depended for your commerce upon Flemish tubs (I call them tubs, for they were not ships). — {Laughter.) You were not free then. Kemember Smithfield. Tell me that your blood has achieved all your greatness for you! Where was your blood 300 years ago 7 Perhaps it was thin then, and has become a little thicker since ! — (a laugh.) No, Sir, it was not your blood, it was the Bible of God, that has made England what she now is. You cannot trace her supre- macy one day earlier than the Reformation. Look at her in the vertex of 1848, standing calmly with her arms folded awaiting I r -•"— ^H ttlm ■■- ? i 14 the storm. The waves passed over her, but she stood firm and unwavering. It was not her Anglo-Saxon blood which pre- served her ; it waa the Bihh.— {Applause.) Do you remember Louis Philippe— Pomare— Tahiti. Ten years after Queen Po- mare became a Protestant. Louis Philippe sent her a ship load of priests and crucifixes. She refused to receive them; but he compelled her to take them, and to allow convents and nunne- ries to be built. Six years after he was hurled from his throne. Look at the triumphs of the Bible in the Society Islands. Thirty years ago the Inhabitants of those Islands were savages. Twenty years since they became Christians, and now they build their own churches and schools, and contribute towards sending the Gospel to the rest of the world. Mark also the spread of the Gospel in India, China, and Persia. One word more. You must all die ! What will be your state after death? Christianity is a reality. Oh ! if I could show you the terrors of hell ! But, what says the Word of God? '• If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead." Go home, and reflect that your hearts will not beat forever — that there is an eternity be} ond the grave ! When you come to die, your wealth will not be of any benefit to you ! Christianity cannot be a fiction. Your souls are bound to an eternity, either of bliss or of woe! Promise me that you will go home, and think of this for one half hour. Think of heaven, think of the terrors of hell, think of the love of Christ ! I shall be amply rewarded for all my trouble, if you think seriously on these things for even one half hour. Your Christianity is true, powerful, and strong. Think of it ! And now, friends, I will bid you good night. {E?ithusiastic applause.) After a few remarks from the Chairman of the meeting (Dr. Avery), a collection was taken up, the object of which was then explained by the Lecturer in the following remarks: — " The object of this collection is to aid in the erection of a church on Mount Hermon. Several missionaries were sent there, one after another, some years ago, but they were all driven away. At last a doctor went there, who was very successful in healing the sick. The people were very grateful to him, and asked what he would take for payment. In Syria we do not pay our doctors in money as you do, but in honey, or other produce. He said, he required no payment, but asked as a favor that they Avould T I A mmgmm firm and lich pre- emeniber aeen Po- p load of ; but he i nunne- is throne, i. Thirty Twenty lihl their tding the ad of the be your I could Word of ither will Gro home, b there is iie, your y cannot er of bliss think of ]e terrors rewarded ;hings for ?rful, and you good ! meeting which was i:— "The 3hurch on 1, one after svay. At ealing the ked what lur doctors He said, lev Avould 15 allow him to preach the gospel to them. They granted his request and he laboured among them as a Missionary. At last, in 1855; eighteen persons declared themselves Protestants. They worship in a small room. When the Gospel call came from China a few years figo, an elderly man with a grey beard rose up in their assembly, and said, *' Sir, we must do something to send the Gospel there." The result was a collection of .£6 Ys. sterling, the first collection in the first native Protestant Church in Syria. The members of this Church are very poor. Th"Sir whole property is not worth £80 sterling. They are anxious to build a Church. The Church will cost £600. This amount has all been raised except 280 dollars. I hope Halifax will give that sum. Be it your privilege to join with us in put- ting a stone in the first native Protestant Church in Syria." T ■,-\ Taesday, 9th September, 18^. Secret of Happiness.— Bible the best book on Syrian customs.— Bedouins of Syria and Indians of America, the same race.— Manners and customs of Bedouins —America known to the Inhabitants of Syria in Solomoa'3 time, and colonized by them.— Townspeople of Syria, their manners and customs.— Mode of ' Salutation.— Marriage customs.— Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah.— Sects in Syria— State of Cliristians in Syria.— Degraded condition of Syrian women.— Appeal on their behalf. [As on the last evening, the Hall was filled to overflowing long before the hour for the lecture, and many were obliged to leave the building, being unable to find even comfortable standing room.] Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen — I am happy to be once more among you. I am glad to see so many here, and sorry to learn that a number have been obliged to leave for want of room. I really feel flattered by your kind attention. Last night it was only 7iatural that there should be a large audience. A Syrian from the Holy Land wag to lecture in Halifax for the first time, and from the novelty of the thing, many would be induced to come. But it is highly gratifying to my feelings that after that novelty has ceased, so large an audience is again here. I hope that I may be able to tell you something which will repay you for your trouble in coming. I am no orator ; I simply relate facts. I leave elo- quence to other hands, and there are gentlemen on the platform who arc much better skilled in the art than I am. I am anxious to make you love Syria in her associations — to love her as the temple of the Christian faith. Everything which shows the Christian religion to be true is important to us. It makes our faith rise from a worldly to a heavenly point of view- Then we can say, "Thy will be done." HMI 18 Which is the happier, the Christian or the Infidel T Where is the truest happiness ? We all long for happiness.— Yonder young man is working day and night. You ask him why he works so hard ? He tells you he is striving to make- a fortune, so as to be able to retire from business, and be happy. He amasses a fortune, and still he is not happy. He says now he must get married, in order to l^ecorae happy. He gets married, and still he is not satisfied. So he goes on continually striving after happiness, but never attaining it. I have traversed the civilized globe, and I have found that everywhere men seek after the shadow, but miss the substance. In order to be happy, we must live for others, not for ourselves. There is a pleasure in making others happy. I can prove this to you by every day occurrences. Take the smoker. He will not perhaps, give a beggar a penny to get a loaf of bread, but he will willingly pay sixpence for a cigar, to smoke U'ith you. Take the drinker. He will spend 4s. or OS. for a bottle of wine, to enjoy the pleasure of drinking it with a companion. No man can be happy, who lives for himself alone. God knew this principle in our nature, when he took the rib from Adam's side. Look at the miser. He goes- about with a ragged coat, and a care-worn anxious look, piling money upon moiey. Is he happy ? With all his money he can only breakfast, dine, and go to bed, and so can I. He must have a great idea of happiness ! Even children cannot be happy- living for themselves alone. Poor little Jane is sick. She is fond of flowers, but cai not go out to pick any herself. Little John makes a bouquet for her, and she is quite delighted with it. Is not little John happy now ? Take another illustration. A little boy gets a penny to buy candy. The candy after it is once eaten cannot be reproduced, besides it may spoil his teeth, and make him ill. But suppose he goes and puts his candy money in the ^lissionary box. then his candy will be repro- duced over, and over ^gain, and ten times SAveeter. You say, ■what can a penny do ? One penny cannot do much, but a haap of pennies may be enough to pay the passage of a Missionary to a foreign land, After some years a Syrian comes forth, who,' with many others, has been converted through the instrumen- tality of that Missionary, and who has been educated in a school established by him. He' says to you, sir, I am your penny. If it had not been for your individual penny, there would not have been the collected pennies, and had it not been for them, the Missionary would not have gone to my country, and I should not have become a Christian. There then is the little boy's k\ 1 19 candy re-produced ten times sweeter. The man must be devwd of all feeling who would not be made happy by seeing the good that his penny has thus done. But we are not done with the penny yet. Afier ten years more when the little Iwy has be- come a man of thirty, another Syrian comes forth, and explains as the former one did, that he is also the fruit of his peDiiy. Again ten vears later another is brought to your notice, and at last after tl'ie little boy has left this world, he finds his penny again beyond the grave. A band of Syrians approaches the Almigl'ty Father. They say, "here is the man who sent money to Syria to teach us, to him we owe all our Christianity." TheO- the little boy hears the heavenly greeting- " Well done, thoa good find faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." Last night I endeavored to prove the reality of Christianity, by describing the present condition of Syria, and its towns, and showing how r^narkably the prophecies with reference to thera have been fulfilled. To night I shall with the same view direci your attention to the manners and customs of its inhabitants. The best book on Syria is the Bible. We people in the East are strange people, bashful people. We live much within doOTS, and few see much of us, except those of our own country. Very few travellers have written correctly of us, because they are not admitted into our private circles. We are very fond of old ways. Our customs are just the same now, as they were m Bible times 3000 years ago, and therefore the Bible is the best book on Syria. Some of our customs are amusing, laughable, and interesting. They are altogether different from yours. You take ofi" your hat on entering a drawing room, — we take off" oar shoes. This is a custom that comes to us from olden timea. Moses was told to take off his shoes* on approaching the burning bush. Taking the hat oft' with us on entering a room would be considered the same as t^dcing off one's coat with you. The people of Svria may be divided into two great classes, tLe Bedouins and "^ the Towns-people. The Bedouins are the Ishmaelites of olden times. They inhabit the wilds of Syria, and form a i)eculiar, and entirely distinct race. The Bedouin will rob you on the principle that you have robbed him before. But still the Bedouin is the soul of honor and chivalry. For a de- scription of his character read Antar by Hamilton. If you reach the Bedouin's tent and put your hand upon the pole, you are safe,— your life is secure. The Bedouins arc well made and exceedingly handsome, tall, erect, and noble looking, with an eagle eye that will look you straight down. Their food is sim- ply milk and Indian c "' The men are constantly away in the iiai aiji 20 Mi desert in search of plunder. The women remain at home to take care of the tents. When I first came to America, some four or five years ago, I was prepared to adopt the idea that your Indians are the lost ten tribes. But when I visited Minnesota, and Iowa, and went among the Indians there, I felt that there was no fiction greater than the idea that they were Jews. I saw at once from their customs and manners that they were down- right Bedouins. We know the habits of the Jew. He settles down to make money. Does the Indian do so ? No ; but like his brother Bedouin in Syria, he loves to rove. You cannot make him settle down in one spot. He has nothing in common with the Jew. except hands and feet, a head, and a pair of eyes. — (^LmiQhtcr.) He lives in a wigwam, the Bedouin in a tent. The Indian calls the white man pale face, and considers him cowardly : so the Bedouin calls us townsmen a band of women, and regards us as low, mean, powerless people. Go into an In- dian's wigwam, and the first thing he presents to you is the pipe of peace , The Bedouin does the same when you enter his tent. These two nations are also alike in the treatment of their chil- dren. When an Indian child is born, it is strapped tight to a straight board. The motlier carries it in this way on her back ; and at the same time a load on her head. The Bedouin mother does the same thing, and nowhere except among these two na- tions have I seen this custom. Their lives, habits and manners are similar. Look also at the Indian's features. He has the same eagle eye and commanding look which distinguish the Be- douin. I speak particularly of the Indian of the interior, some 2000 miles from the sea coa^t. I do not say that all the Indians are Ishmaelites. Some in South America, and some in the Uni- ted States, I am convinced are not. You will ask me how they came over to America. Look at the last three vei-ses of the ninth chapter of L Kings, and you will find that Solomon had a navy of ships at Ezion-geber. You will see in the following chapter that his ships made a voyage once in three years. Again in speaking of Tyre, the Word of the Lord says. 'Thy rowers have brought thee into great icatcrs, the East wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.'' Observe that wafers is in the plural. The Easterly wind would carry the ships direct to Gib- raltar, and from thence across the Atlantic to America. Histo- rians say that the Indians came by Behring's Straits. I do not believe this, because very few Indians remains are found near Behring's Straits. In fact, the majority of such remains are to be found further South than this place. As to the story of their coming over in a vessel which was driven far out of her * ^. I 21 course by a storm, and wrecked, jou may believe it, but I do not. It must have been after-dinner talk. As I remarked last evening, arts were practised in Syria in ancient times, which are now unknown to the world. Why may we not have had as perfect a knowledge of navigation as of the other arts, which we know formerly existed among us ? The majestic columns of Petra, and the magnificent temples of Baalbec, remain to prove our knowledge of Architecture, and this country with its an- cient inhabitants remains to prove our acquaintances with navi- gation. I am satisfied that both the Atlantic and Pacific were known m Bible times. I will now speak of the Townspeople. I am a Townsman myself Our national character has suffered much by mixing ■^ith foreigners. We have learned from them duplicity in trade. For instance a i'rench or Austrian merchant sends a cargo of merchandize to Syria, amounting in value to £1000. His agent takes a false invoice, in which the goods are made out to be worth only X500, shews this to the custom house ofii^er. and pays du- ties on the latte)^ amount only. The Syrian merchant, in order to compete successfully with the foreigner, is obliged to practise the same deception. This duplicity is then, you see, a foreign addition to our character, and by no means a creditable one. Nothwithstanding this defect, the Syrian is hospitable, generous, and agreeable. He takes as much pains to be polite, and to make himself pleasing to the old man of eighty, as to the young girl of eighteen. — He is as agreeable with the one as he is lov- ing with the other. — {Laughter.') The e are no hotels in Sy- ria, except at Damascus or Jerusalem. When you enter a town you knock at the first door you come to, and then walk in. The servant comes to meet you, and then goes to inform his master of your arrival. The master comes and welcomes you, telling you that his house is yours. You then take off your shoes. In Syria we wear morocco slippers — not such shoes as I wear here, which are like yours. The servant then washes your feet, and wipes them in true Abrahamic style. A pipe is then handed to you. You are not asked whether you smoke or not, it is as- sumed you do, as smoking is the rule, and not smoking the ex- ception. You may then make yourself perfectly at home in the house. You may stay one, two, or three days, as you please, but you are expected to stay three days. If you then receive a further invitation from the master of the house you may stay three days more and so on, three additional days for every time that the invitation is renewed. The rooms in Syrian houses are large and spacious, and there are separate saloons for wome7i, as r wmm mill 22 they never sit in the same room with mm. When you enter a room you find the people sitting all round the walls. It would never do for us to sit in the centre of the room as you do, for as our rooms arc always full of smoke, if persons were sttting in the middle of the room, you would be apt to break the neck of s pipe, or perhaps the neck of some person. — {Laui^hter.) The seat of honor is directly opposite the door, and every new comer is pressed to take that place. The host sits near the door. Yon are not introduced as you are here, — Mr. So and So, Mr. So and So,— but the host takes you in his arms and kisses yon, as much as to say, 1 take you into my confidence: the person sitting next him does the same, and soon, until you reach the top of the room, where you sit down, take your pipe and smoke in company with the rest. I do not like this custom very much myself. When I returned home after my first visit to America, I was kissed all over my face until my cheeks were really sore. — (Laughter.) If a Syrian meets a friend on the street, he places his right hand on his heart, then on his forehead, then kisses the tips of his fingers, and then bows, which means I sin- 'Cerely love, respect and esteem you. Young Syria has abbreviated this process, and merely kisses his hand. After smoking, a servant brings you coffee, as strong as jalap, (laughter,) without sugar or milk, in a cup as small as one of your egg cups. Such coffee as yotirs would be nothing but dirty water to us. Then iced sherbet (which is just • iced lemonade) is brought in on a silver salver. Having partaken of this, you talk, laugh, and so on, and after one more kiss away you go. Our manner of living and our houses ai-e altogether different from yours. We are all such great smokers, that we would be sm*,tb.eied in your houses, as there is no convenient way of getting he smoivc out of them. Our houses are built in the form of a quad- rangle. There is a square room in each corner, with half rooms between them. The roofs of the houses are flat. We often spend 6ur evenings, and sometimes the whole nifht there. You read in the Bible of praying on the ^ho\^^e 'Of: That is not at all an uncommon thing in Syria. We recline on rich ottomans. We Eastern people are fond of lounging. I like it myself, I do not fancy being stuck up bolt upright on a chair like an Egyptian mummy. We cannot live upon roast beef as you do. The heat fairly enter a [t would 0, for an tting in 1 neck of /•.) The w comer need as but the h as to ing next e top of 1 smoke Dill very irst visit ' cheeks aces his n kisses ns I sin- ^ria has 1. After is jalap, 1 as one nothing \\ is just ■ Having ifter one and our ! are all in your le smoke ' a quad- vilh half are flat, e whole ; on the in Syria, lople are 3y being niummy. eat fairly 23 makes rof/s/ />r<c/ of ourselves. (Lfiuffhtcr.) They laugh at me at my hotel here for living on vegetables. We take one meal between 11 and 12 o'clock in the morning, some- thing like your luncheon — iicold chicken with abundance of vegetables of i U knids. We time at half-past seven on a warm dish made up of meat, minced with vegetal)les. Tliere is one dish which I am very fond of. I will de- scribe it to you, and if any of you will take the trouble to make It, I will be happy to dine with you. — {A laugh.) Take a vegetable marrow, scrape out the inside uiuil it is quite thin, fill it with rice^ and mutton cut into small pieces, and well seasoned with herbs, pepper, and salt, then lay on the top a cauliflower leaf or something of Ihe kind, and let It boil in a saucepan for 2 hours. We never eat meat by itself, but always mix a large quantity of vegetables with it. On this diet we attain to great age. Old men of 110, 120, and even 130 y«ars, are not at all uncommon in Syria. Our marriage customs are the most amusing and inter- esting of all. We are still the people of 3000 years ago — still the same as m Bible times. Look at Isaac's marriage. Abraham said to his servant, go and take a wife for my son, I depend upon your taste in the matter. Persons are married in a similar way now in Syria. Marriage in Syria is the great epoch in a young man's life. If a boy wants a pair of shoes, his father tells him, wait my son until you get married, and so with almost every thing else that he asks for, and thus the young man is very anxious to get married, as he expects then to have all his wants satisfied. You say how is he to get married, when he never sees a female ? The young people have nothing to do with bring- ing it about. The father or mother manages ths affair. Young men are married at the age of fifteen, or sixteen, and girls at thirteen. My mother was married when she was eleven, and I was born before she was fourteen. At eighteen she was a widow with four small children. Tlie climate allows these early marriages. Marriages are brought about in this way. The mother sees a young girl who pleases her, and she says to her husband, " husband, I think so and so, would make a nice wife for our John." " Well," says the husband, "do you think she will make him happy?" '* Happy, oh, she will do well enough to hand him his pipe." «' Very well then," says he, " you go and see her mother, and I T r wmm mmm i v^ ili ; II 24 I will see her*father." He accordingly calls on the father, and after a good deal of preliminary conversation, tells the father that he has a very fine daughter, whom he would like to have the honor of getting for his son. If the proposal be agreeable, the father replies, " Sir, the honor is on my head, I shall be proud of an alliance with your house." And now the young people are just as much married, as if the ceremony had actually been performed, although they know nothing about it. They are now betrothed. Some time after the clergyman comes to the house of the father of the young man. The father tells the son to bring a pipe for the clergyman. This is nothing uncom- mon, as it is always done when a visitor enters the house. But when the clergyman puts his hand on the young man's head, and blesses him, he then suspects what is going on. He knows now that he is betrothed, but whether his future bride is bla«k or white, short or tall, whether she has false teeth or no teeth, (laughter) he cannot tell, he only knows that he is going to be married, as besides having received the blessing his father has given the clergyman the diamond, bracelet, and necklace for his future bride. The clergyman next goes tr the house of the future bride. Her father says to her, " Jane, bring a pipe. ' She does so, and the clergyman on taking it, blesses her. StiL this does not excite her suspicion, as it is very common for the clergyman to bless the girls j but when he puts the bracelet on her arm, the diamond on her forehead, and the necklace on her neck, she then knows that she is betrothed, but as to whether her future husband has woolly hair or straight hair, arms or no arms, a nose or no nose, she is utterly ignorant. {Laughter.) You will remember that when Abraham's servant selected Bebekah as a wife for Isaac, he gave her jewels. The poor bridegroom has never y3t seen his wife, and cannot for some time yet Tlie period oi betrothal varies from three to twelve months, b-it three months is the usual period. Next comes the marriage. This occupies four days,— from Thursday until Monday. If the Syrians saw your marrir.ges liere which are completed in five minutes, they would be astoni.^hed. They would say. " well, these people do every thing by steam, they even get married by steam." {Laughter.) Ten years ago a marriage used to occupy fourteen days, but young Syria has shortened the period. Anyone, knowing that a marriage is about to be celebrated, may enter the house of the father ot the bridecrroom. He goes in and finds the house full of people eat- ing and drinking. No invitation or preparation is required, except that you must have your best clothes on— you must have \. w^ ;as mi ther, and he father 3 to have tgreeable, shall be le young d actually t. They comes to r tells the ig uncom- ise. But head, and nows now black or no teeth, oing to be father has ice for his ise of the a pipe." icr. Still )n for the racelet on ace on her 3 whether irms or no aughter.) t selected The poor for some to twelve comes the iday until which are ed. They ;eam, jars Syria has tiarriage is ther of the people eat- ; required, must have they ago a 25 the wedding garment. You find some fitleen or twenty men with long grey beards, carrying round trays of sweet meats. You refuse to take anything, as you say that you have already eaten enou^rh, but you are pressed to eat, and must eat as they teU you, the more you eat and drink, the more you show your bve to the bridal pair. So the guests continue eatmg from Thursto afternoon until Sunday evemng. The bridegroom 3 father i soon as it becomes dark, says, " now friends, we mu3t go to church." Marriages are always celebrated at night. A taper is then given to certain of the guests, as an invitation t wHness the marriage ceremony, and the others quiely take SeTr leave. Bemember the parable of the wise and foohsh v^- Sns. The bridegroom and his party tben leave through the archway. They arrive at the church. The ^nd^S^^J^ not even yet see the bride, for she is veiled from head to foot You will remember that Rebekah veiled herself when she met Wc Even after the marriage ceremonial the bridegroom loTs notTmmediately see his wife' The bride and bridegroom ^Tthen paraded thLgh every street i- {f ^-' ^^^, ^"^^rrW^^ eoina one way and the bridegroom's another until they arrive ft the house ^f the bridegroom's father. A little before mid- nlht the cry is heard, the " bridegroom cometh," and exactly at='hat hour the door is shut. Those who are out hen ^ust remain out, and those who are within, remam m. {Ihe l.ec toerhere gave a humorous description of a marriage at Tripoli n which he himself took part as one of the groomsmen. He graphically described the anxiety of tl^^^^^^^f^bv the mt life, his nervousness and trepidation on being told by the mis- S evous younc men among his party, that the bride was old ujy, &c.%owever, the bride turned out to be a very pretty ^ The Syrians are all nominal Christians and Mahometans They are very indolent and ignorant. You wil scarcely find five among aimdred who can read. Even withm my own re- meXnle, when a letter came to Beyi-out, it was necessary ^ 20 over the whole town to find a person to read it. The girls m lyr a (except in Beyrout, the town I come from) are considered beneath education. If I were a married man. m Syria and a s^ wT borp to me, my friends would run to me and say, ^' ul ;ou a son is born," a'nd I should be expected to give the bearer of the ioyful tidings, my purse, f>v some valuable pre- S After that I should^lways be called by the name of my Ton If my son's name were Gregory, I should be styled Fa- te Grecrory. If you were to write a letter to me, you would f^Um mmMtM mtmii "■4^' I!! % \ I 26 address me thus : ''My dear Father Gregory.'' So in conversa- tion also, I should always be called "Father Gregory." But if it be a girl that is born, no one will come to tell of it. Bad news comes soon enough. All the windows in the house will be closed, and you would suppose that a funeral had taken place. My friends will by and bye, come to condole with me and say am $halluh. (it may please God) to give you a son next time, and the daughter can sweep your house, and cook your dinner, and thus be of some use to you. As to her being educated, such a thing is never thou-ht of The Mussulman never expects that she will go to Heaven. Indeed he does not want he^to go there, as he looks forward to meeting there the beautiful Houris, whom he thinks earthly companions would defile. At her father's she has been the slave of the whole household, and now she is mar- ried to a man she never saw, she must be a slave to him. The moment he walks in, she must bring him his pipe, if he weeps, she must weep, if he laughs, she must laugh, she must be all things to him. Her bosom must never beat with pleasure, she must be all submission to her lord and husband, and never pre- sume to sit in his presence.— Ladies ! how would you like this to be your condition ? If you were kept in this state, would you not be anxious that some one would plead for you ! If she is beaten nobody knows it. Nay, he may even kill her. One individual, as it was afterwards discovered, killed seven wives in one night. A writer on Syria, speaks of having found the body of a female under the window in the street, stabbed in two places. The body was put into a sack and thrown into the wa- ter, and no inquiry made about it. Unhappily, beating, flog- ging, and killing, are not the worst. If your condition is differ- ent, ladies, it is not because you are Anglo-Saxons, but because you have the Bible. If you think that it is education makes all the difference, look at the loose girl of France or Austria. In Syria the father takes his child with him to the store, and takes care of him. Here, his mother takes care of him all day. It is only in Bible lands that woman is a wife and mother. In Turkey and Syra she is only a slave. I know not how to beg. You may know this, as I have not been near any of you to day. I want you, however, to feel for Syria. To say that you are sorry for hor only, will not do. That is just Ipie mustard on beef—^ mere accompani- ment to something more substantial. If you really feel for Syria, you will be willing to give something to aid her. Why must missionaries always derive their support from England and America ? Is Halifax for ever to remain free from such •as^^^^mt^e^MtStltli ?onversa- ." But it. Bad e will be en place. ! and say ext time, dinner, ted, such ects that go there, is, whom ler's she } is mar- n. The e weeps, istbe all jure, she >ver pre- like this J, would If she r. One wives in the body I in two • the wa- ag, flog- is diflFer- because aakes all ;ria. In nd takes lay. It ker. In 27 such claims ] This is the first time that a Syrian laborer in tho Missionary cause, has ever visited you, and let it be said that vour reply to this appeal was, " We iri/Hielp.'' I have told you nothing strange. 1 have told you simply the fact that T-a-e is no longer, that Baalbek is in rums, that Jeru- salem is in heaps. But the same God who foretold the destruc- tion of those cities, has also said of Syria '' I will redeem her acrain, I will make her the glory of the whole earth. That p?onhecy is now being fulfilled. Look at our rising Beyrout. I have told you what she 'was 20 years ago. Now, we have schools, churches, missionaries, and our people are educated and refined. Be it your privilege to join in this missionary work. Show that you can live for others, and that the land where Christ died for your sake is not without your sympathy. Let it be said that Halifax, when this appeal was made to her, came tor- ward sympathizingly and generously. I can say no more. 1 know not how to say more. ^ ^, , , jv i,.,^ I thank you for your marked attention. Oh ! how delighted I should be if my mother were here to-night. How it would delight her heart, far away in Syria to know that an audience had listened with such attention to her son, for an hour and a half Once more I thank you, and now, may the Lord bless jou and poor ^jvm.— {Enthusiastic applause.) lave not > feel for m\\ not ompani- feel for . Why England )m such ■'13 Li tttatmrnrnM ~i ""1 P"" ■1 ^ iJBata MMMi / ■Wednesday, 10th September, 1856. The Late War-Its connection with Syria and the Holy Lan'J-Preserving the Intesrity of the Ottoman Empire— The immediat* cause of the War- Dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre-Different Christian Sects in Svria—Maronites— Intrigues of France and Russia— Ihe Late treaty— iL effect-Education in Syria-First Missionaries there and their con- verts— Their Sufferings— Protestant School at Beyrout, opened by William Thomson, of Ohio-Its beneficial effects-Present and former state of Beyrout. [Although an admission fee of 7 l-2d. was taken this even- ing, at the suggestion of the Rev. P. G. McGrigor the evening previous the room was still crowded. This small fee was charged in order to secure comfort to the speaker and audience, by the Hall's not being uncomfortably filled, and that some noisy boys who had obtruded themselves at the second Lecture might be excluded. The Lecturer was opposed to it, as he said that he wished evcnj one to. know about Syria, and did not in any sense of the word want to beg. He finally consented how- ever.] SIrT Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen — " I rise to address you for the last time. There is something sad in the words ''the last time:'' Parting is to me always sad. Even on leaving a hotel for the last time, I feel sad. You may imagine then how deeply pained I must feel at parting with you, after the peculiar kindnesses which I have received, th« manner in which you have opened your hearts and your homes to me, and the attentive hearing you have given me. A number of gentlemen who kindly called and left their cards, I have not been able to see. I hope they will take the intention TT-f dtt mmmmmmi^m 30 11 for the deed. I cordially thank those gentlemen who have m kindl J given me their time, and invited me to their homes. My home is in Syria 7000 miles away, and I cannot hope ever to visit you again, nor can I expect that you will leave your duties to come to see me. We shall see each other no more until we meet at the great tribunal. Once more I thank you for your hospitality and kindness to me, and now friends to our lecture. {Enthusiastic and continued applause.) I thank you for the applause, but please leave it until the close of the lecture. Our subject is one of deep interest to you Anglo-Saxons, for you have spent your money on it, — and what is infinitely more valuable than money, — your blood. I am about to show you how Syria and the Holy Land are connected with the War, and how the War took place. I shall also explain to you the late Treaty, and the results which have just begun, and which must inevitably follow from it. Syria must always be a place of vital interest to England and the Anglo-Saxon race. Imagine that you have a map of Europe before you. There away up to the north is Russia, and below her, to the southward, Austria and Prussia. Then to the east of the latter two countries, and to the southward of the former you find Syria, Africa, and Egypt. France through her first Napoleon once said, " Give me Syria and I will conquer Constantinople, and break down the Turkish empire." Russia says the same, and they are right, too; for Syria is the key to the possession of Turkey. Russia says, *' Give me Turkey, and I can soon conquer Austria and PruesiaJ' If she gets Syria she will soon overrun Austria and Prussia, and ten years hence there may be France alone on the continent to bear the brunt of the whole Russian empire, France. Russia, Austria, and Prussia, are all clamoring for the possession of Syria, but England steps in and says, •' Gentlemen, none of you can have it ; if any one must have Syria, I must have it myself" (Applause.) But England says, "If I take it, I will be vulneiable at thai point : Russia will be constantly attacking me there, and it would cost me another national debt to fortiiy it." England, therefore, determines to insure its possession to Turkey, and to defend her in the possession of it ; and this is what is called preserving the integrity of the Otto- man Empire. Much has been said about danger to India, if Russia should become possessed of Turkey. But those who know the Balkan and Himalaya mountains, know that there need be no fear alwut India being conquered by any army coming over them. How- ^m a ... iiBS lave m '• My ever to r duties intil we )i' your lecture. itil the ons, for ly more )w you ar, and he late jh must of vital ine that > to the ria and and to Egypt, e Syria lurkiah too; for ia says, ruBsia.' Prussia, mtinent Russia, 3sion of none of have it :e it, I nstantly rial debt sure its >n of it; le OfJo- \, should Balkan )ar alwut How- 31 % ever, if Syria belonged to France or Russia, the highway of England to India would be blocked up, and it would cost her a miltion, perhaps a thousand millions, to keep up her intercourse with that country. Now, let us step back oOOO years ago. Syria was even then an interesting country. The Almighty having the whole earth before him, chose Syria par excellence, as a good and perfect gift for Abraham, and also as the dwelling place of His own Son while in the flesh. Alexander the Great knew the importance of Syria. He spent several months at the siege of Tyre, and at the end of that time a bridge, which he had constructed to lead into the town, was destroved. He was dismayed, appalled, and would have retired from the field, but that he felt it was absolutely necessary for him to possess the place— Tyre being the mistress of the Mediterranean. Your councillors, your statesmen, know full well the value of Syria. Let her be menaced, and you will have to go and fight' again. Your blood was shed unsparingly at Sebastopol, and it would then have to flow as freely again. God has done for England what she never could have done for herself This war has strengthened her interests, and insured her safety in the Mediterranean, in Turkey, Syria, and Egypt. You ask me how? I will show you. The war commenced about the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusa- lem. This dome became dilapidated ; the Greek Church said, *'I must repair it." The Romish Church claimed the same privilege. Lavalette asked and obtained from the Sultan o. firman to enable the Romish Church to build it. The Greek Church found themselves nonplussed. Russia then said to Turkey, "You must recal that firman." Turkey was about to do so, when Lavalette said, -If you (/o, I will bring a fleet to Con- stantinople.'' Turkey then hesitated. Russia seemg this, said, " If threatening be the order of the day, I can threaten too,'" — and ordered her armies into the Principalities. This was con- sidered as a casus belli by Turkey, who accordingly declared war some time after against Russia. You will ask me how did the Greek and Romish Churches get to Syria, and what have they to do there 1 I will explain to you. There are various sects of Christians in Syria. There are the Greek Orthodox, the Greek Maronites, and the Roman C/itholics. ' The Maronites acknowledge the Pope as the head of the Church. In the 11th century the Crusaders went forth. The T™" mm MBH # S2 i .(! I Crusaders hated the Mussulmen, and so did the Maronites, who accordingly made common cause with the Crusaders, and con- sented to acknowledge the Pope as the head of the Church, although they have no other views in common with the Catho- lics. There was a popular preacher in Damascus called Caro- lus — a Greek bishop. His people wished to make him Patriarch of Antioch, but the Greek Ecclesiastics refused to do so, as he held some doctrines which were contrary to thoso of the Greek Church. For instance, he believed that the Holy Spirit pro- ceeded from the Father and the Son. The Greek Church be- lieves that the Holy Ghost proceeded from the Father alone. In this strait the Catholics ofiered to make him Patriarch if he would acknowledge the Pope as Head of the Church. He con- sented to do so, and thus became Patriarch of Antioch. Thus sprang up the sect of the Maronites. Strenuous efforts have been made by the Roman Catholics to extend the power of the Komish Church in Syria. They have built cathedrals, convents, nunneries, and so forth. A poor Maronite finds a magnificent cathedral going up by his door. He savs, " Dear me what a fine church, what church is that?" "Oh,-" says the Ilomanist, "that is your church." "Oh, no," he replies, " that cannot be the case, for I am a poor Ma- ronite." "But yon acknowledge the Pope as the Head of the Church." "Yes," "Well, then, that Church is for you." The Greek Church were acting in the same way. The movements of these Churches were closely watched by the Potentates who supported them, and they were both making rapid advances, until this war broke out and stopped ihe progress of both of them. We are all Turkish subjects in Syria. France is the pro- tector of the Romish Church, and Russia of the Greek Church. I will explain to you how they became such. Even as late as five years ago. the greater part of the inhabitants of Beyrout were in a very degraded condition. A Christian's word would not be taken in a Court of Justice, and he had to suffer all kinds of insults. Suppose I were a Roman Catholic or a Greek, and a Mussulman strikes me on the cheek. I go and tell the Consul — the French or the Russian, according to the Church' to which I belong. The Consul immediately puts on his cocked bat. and goes to the Pasha, and says, "Sir, this conduct must not be allowed." " Certainly not," says the Pasha. " the man must be punished," and accordingly he is punished. The Pasha does this not because he cares about the Christian, but because he is afraid of greater demands being made by the nation to km yggaim 88 • by which the Consul belongs. From frequent occu'rences of tta kind it became an umfcrstood thing, that the Romish Church ;r, unto he protection of France, and the Greek C'mrch unto r protection ol' Russia. These powers, m order to s«rve their own eiuls have made political capital out of our creeds. They were endeavoring to effect by stt-atagem, ^v^at they could not :Z by fo-e. F-nce says,' "If I can >n'f'^,,-ll ^^P^^nk Syria Vatholkx, I shall have their sympathy. I^"?f «L"^^ she will attain the »me end by making them all '^^^^'^^^ (ireek Church.' France has spent enormous sums of money tor Meet Tie Roman Cath'olic Cathedral in Jerusalem cost PlTnonO one in Beyrout X120,000, one m Damascus £80,- m:Z\C::: l W ^00,000.. several othe« have hppn built at a large cost in other towns in Syria. What a con Stsis to the'^liberality of Protestants! .It has cost your iinworthv speaker, three years labour to raise i-bUU. You isk me who has gained by this war 7 I say nothing has .ailed by T but the^Bible/ All the great Powers who ^ngag^^^ it, have been disappointed. They have been d^ck- mated in every project and in every idea by the Great Super- fntending Powe'^^ Goo has said to France and Russia, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ! -, i.x.u^,. Turkey never supposed that the war was gomg to annihilate nei , but h SXie so'virtually by the destruction of her re igion^ She may now say of her Islamism, - Ichabod, the glory is ''Cfagain as to France. A cardinal from I^ome used to visit KSvrfa every few years in state, and parade through the et It the heaLf a Lge procession, almost equal mma^ nificence to a re-al retinue, in order to impress the SyrianbWith "i Zof the pSwer and grandeur of Rome. France supposed that she would be a gainer by the War, ^^^^.^f^f, ^^.^^^^^ disaDDointed. The Bible is now allowed to circulate treelv uSr;nl-- in Syria, and I need not tell you friends, tha where the Bible jroes, it will make its way. {Applause.) All Ihl^flrent nations entered upon the War with different motives, luit God overruled it all, to his own glory. So again Witt Russia! Russia thought tbat the War would destroy the Romish Church, but her own power has been broken. ThfBible now goes to the Greek, as well as to the Mussul- "''The promises are now being fulfilled of the deliverance of Syria. Baalbek remains to attest her former grandeur, iyre is no longer, and Jerusalem is in heaps. The Dead Sea flows 8 ^W • 34 over Sodom and Gomorrah. But the same mouth which uttered the proXy of Tyre, that she should be a rock for fishermen to spread their nets on, has also said of her, and of all Syria ' I wilfredeem her again, I will make her a praise unto all nations Do you not see thtt there is a ffuiding hand m Syria .' If a Syrfan is injured the whole world is in coinmotion about hin. Y^takc asliuch interest in him as though he were j.our o.n child You do not take such an interest m other countries Lot China Prussia, or Franco be atiaoked, and you are quite intilk nt\ result. Although this War came upon us ui^eWedly, it did not come too soon. Our country required r CntyVs ago it would have done little or no good. The state of ignorance which then prevailed, even m Beyrout I ha; already described to you. Girls were looked upon as far mferiortomen, thtee girls being considered equivalent to one boy AH the education you could then find in Syria, ^^as a school of twelve- boys-the scions of the aristocracy sitting S rV^^t in the vestry of the Church. They were taugh to read the Psalms of David ; there ,was no Spelling Book in Svria When a boy could read tlie Psalter, he was considered ^[uStod A^ithme^tic was not taught. The educated boy could not tell what twice two made without counting it up on Ins fingers. The people, then, ha.ghed at the ulea of the wor behig round, or that tlie sun stood still If I had to^^l the, that this liandkerchief was silk, and the Chui-ch said it was cotton, they would believe that it was cotton. Even on looking Mt it thev Avould not think otllerwis(^ It I were to say, teel it, K^y tmM-ply, ''we do nut want to feel it; the Church has said it i. cotton, and we say it is cotton-- ro//o/. it must be, and so there is an end of all argument about it. Such was the state of Syria a few years ago, but a. great .liange has been wrought there. Got) first began with the Christians. In 181H the first Missionaries (who were Ameri- cans) went to Syria; English Missi^aries went subsequently^ As soon as it was known that thcc Missionaries had lauded, a cry went through all the churche. that they were heretus. i a Syrian saw one of them walking down the s^cet, he wouh run as if the plague were after him. If a Missionary even M his way out of a street, they would put their hands to their ears, and run away as if for their lives, cvymg heretic herctw. Whit human power could efiect anything under such circum- stances as these '.' The work which has progressed there within the last twenty years is peculiarly the Almighty s own woi^ The word "heretic" in Syria means a man expelled trom the a 35 • Clmvch, and «.cur^l by O^V'^^'ltl'TSTJiftot is mt\ to bo rcsorvca for the heretic. It is thouKlit worse f , retic, tl„«. to be a thief, or even a murderer. A Jh^'j]* ■:,u.lere; can Ik, '^^Z^^ZT^^^^ the natives were shy of *f«"''rX American Missionaries tions were uttere.1 iiffvinst them • Iho A;""'^'' j,. ^^]^„^^ Uitoed prayerfully and faithfully &»» ^.^^ '» ^^'^ Arsons "tTtl^irtltrbrth™^^^^^^^^^ .n.e St 1 ke the different regiments in your -™y-«j"4„; .^ \ hZ^ Croi mm\ I ^s\\\ hail him as a brother. \ ou amI 1 s<ty , ^Iwvc n M^i»aries. 'key were ;'-%'---•;";;, ^^ "l rrdingiy brought up ^;^;^:;^S^:^J^:f^:{:^ S h-;:::—! ''yon: thef C I co«ld be O-e so„ of ;,„ Armenian Bishop, ami yet a ^''^^'J";'"^,,^,, ^,„ .„fes„i„i, You call y»"™« ''=?,<^ '"*™'^', ' " ,\,;^ f L Aeutions i^:u::iaSans^urtLi^^^^^^^^ ;:!"i;Xfoni;\''roVat'yo«r Missionary Uecords to 'T S KSn Missionaries v,ith o™ ttrS : ;S [SiJId be liis nanro,) was cletmnined to re^^ajn. ^:i^rt; bS tXr oSa?S . earnestly, telling • 86 Syria were at that t.„^e '"-'if j^'j/'^tw no bettor. Tl,o th«,y wanted »«"'» ''%, n"„';, ""ild no idea of European chidreuwere dirty. •1'"' P^."!' /"I,,,.;,,,, together. I'ray manners. Men and won.en dul ""' "X ' ,aK » tl.e.n J. exeu»o me for sayinj; men and ;«'.«'- ^^^ ^ ^ , „f tl.eu, When I speak of n,y <'™ -"^''^y^^^^: I »lU eall you an men mi icomm. Wlien J. speaK oi y ,,. . .,, ladio. and ^entlctm (rMvflcr) ^ ^H,.*!' XS, and eaeh of us a r(»m u.eely '"™'f'<^'^l.XJ'X &e Wlu u n,y r: U Jrirnjf ,ers. The g^«t ^n was to see he whole six boys with .tbeir ^™V ff™ hIuS' Arahie) with (f»f 'l^-™^ I'^^il* ! 'r-f S ';l wteel. the] were s was part oi ine j uu.».. .— - -■ ■ . j- , , ,, i fine warm 'dinner ™«f '"S /'^ I'!:; '/ :^^;^t e, return to obliged to stand lookmg at '- :^' '"'j' .'^.^f „t* the end of a the school dmnerlesd. C-l /'"'=«■) ' p , ,,,,^e .^kwl year, we eould speak Enghs^. petty -U-l o.p^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ me how it is, that I speak E"gl«h ^o « i o first tongue in wliieh Tlearned to read, w nte , ml c.pr y^^^^ ^^^^ I think,^eel, aet, ami even J^™ >^„f„f ^i '' t, Mr. Thon.p- Engliah exeept my J'T'^.i* f" Wo were then elean a,ul neat son gave us two weeks vaeat^ ^^« « j„ ^.^^ „, „,„.„ „,Ve in our persons l'-\ ^ood Uotlo^^^^ ^^,^^^ ^^ ^,,^ ^„l,„„, boys compared to what we wen, wne i « "^, '^lo'Z*^ nSyla':"' CiownW-wcled so dirty." The boys stared "VrUtoniZ"nt I pulled my grandfathers gazed on u,e ««' ^^^f »'™^,, J ^, ,J, Ll ir»nSato it into Syri«-a Syrma boy wult fu.u lon^ Uu, and nicely ^m Haul I, ''<lo" tlicro'H Tom, - forgotten mo. nice, and mn them about tl picturcH, cry too!" Thei to school t( restrained, J the school ii for want of that time B formerly avi tlemanly lo twontj* wh< boy in 15c)' two or ihr( never lett and aft goo Our gi capable of — no maji warm feel here or ai mcnt. 'I Haw a yoi how the}/ our kid } selves lo not ec^ua i^yria, c are prot we love We alst yes '. W' that th -women girls a Nova i compli respecl The amau y Jl mc for iinswor ople of )OCJlUSO . Tho iropcnn Pray lioin so. jf tliom all you •y gave ad, aiin lieu my room, r rer here in til em the first ised, l)ut lid lose a 3m I lost > sec tlio I a bench )ie) with ley Avcre return to I end of a ave asked I was tlie ; luy ideas, t I am all r. Thomp- n and neat AYOVC iu''e the school. r>cst dress, ys crowded yT, you arc others, aTid pulled my J the same ic pictures. n,!j;lish, and lid English, long bail', 8T V' "Why " Haid I '' «^""'t you reme nhei Uui. ,^^^ ^,^^^ have you ,n " Their fatl.e« mt.-vi.o«-.l «>'» ^;"" ,, ,/ e,mU not l.e r school to tUUuretk n.u.. i'" .^'l.^; ol. wore mlW W lt»r.., una ti,c con^l-c.- - that _.U . ^ y^^ , „ tlie school in a smi^lc yeai . i" ^ ^.i-jiaren in attendance, l^om fr want of funds, theiH) ^vcre "^ ^^^^^^^^ ^vitlMvhat she nt n.c 15eyvont Iras become nnd- « J c u I ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ h:;TT oyi-out «ho cannot ho^he „^' J, Blount Honnon S or tln^ h.,.n.«JJ ^J^^ ,,.„ „.. „U,o lun««a«.s, never left Syr», a ul !'« ^l'*- , ,, ,„o,„. and as ffx-l English as any o. l n ^^^^^ themselves l,„,. i-irls have l^'^^Vt'^i^'-'Vo' ve I<iaWn> a^ you have, Jle of eaucation. ^e 1-v-, n« ^ ;^,,„t ;;„ .ivls have as _„o maiestic rivers, or .v 1.1 ""^ct, ^j,, i,„„ts as any huhes «arm feelings, »"<^ f ''"'?;: Vid" - ■''- -l"*'t "f "'Xv here or any ^vhero else. Or t > ^^^^^ ^ ,^^.^,, ^^^ t^ey Int. Twenty years ago he /«»;,,„., ,,„,„ „p „r .lown o „,^ a yo»"S «'""'"'i,: '' ",' ve go eourting «e >"«^* I"' ° l,n» thcv hioked. Now -rtntu " .° ,. „ (,„.. nml make oui- rSovos, straighten up o"', ?"'\^"'n„w- seven n,cn arc SvcB i .,«iU.. smart -'f ",Uen the r.ihlo went to not enual to one woman m "^ " . ;„ ^oeial i-'Sition. \\c Z X} ,mr uirls were at once clcvatui ni . ^^^.^^^^ t.?;;o«a to sec them no l^-^^flnncUm or burning W '1- love to feel their soft and !?^nf .>";;! • „„ hours. ^ es Wc also love their co'''r'"''»tVo lom'c; .md I pvay .'» ^i"^ " , ,,c «iU have them 'l^n ta Ae irhole of Syria, our J. . .,^ »;„,„ muv come when ni i"i ,.,.„;„ „„v. Our ",, ,,c«iU have then. «'»"» jn he vhole of that the time -Y ^ h^'rLTaignity of thch Nyria, our &• the time may ^f^^xJ^ £^y o( their seK. Our «omen will he exalte,! to the p oper y ^^^^^^ ,,^,,,^,, ,.irls are amiable, l^^^'^ .,:"', "" .u-o, and I pay. y^«- t^o •tlovaScotian topics, ^ca^'til Us you .^^> ,^^,^.,^^ ^ ,„ ,h,s compliment, our bynan g» ' , respect. . ^„„„ , ,,• „,„. Merchants now. , totmeriy m mm m <> 8 a man worth tenw of thousands is not considered extraordinarily wealthy. All this has been done within the last 20 years. Look at our luxuries, our drawing rooms, our carpets, furniture, kc. If his Holiness were to tell us noAv, that a sour thin;^ was sweet, Ave Avould say, " wait your Eminence, Ave Avill taste it ourselves.'- As a proof of Avhat the Bible has done, I Avould only ask you to look at Old and New Beyrout. OldBeyrout is like the old town of Edinburgh — black und dingy. The ncAv town is beautiful — pleasantly situated and eniboAvercd amidst nnilberrv trees. The Oliristians arc noAV rising up. •Do you suppose I Avould alloAV a Turk to strike me on the cheek? No, I)y no means. "We Avere on the point of a civil Avar, Avhen this War broke out. (Mu'istianity came OA'cr our country, like a mighty Niagara, roll- ing along, and bringing Avith it Avealth, refinement, taste, and civilization. The Mussulman, hoAVCver Avas a drag to us. We Avere sighing for a change Avhcn Go i> brought about this War. Maliometanism had ever been a great barrier to the advancement of our country, and to the progress of Cliristianity. This War came and broke it doAvn. The late treaty alloAVS the Bible to go to every man in Syria. The jMussulman can noAv go to school with tlie Christian. Wo can now teach the Mussulmen, and they will conse(juently advance as Aveli as ourselves. The War was necessary for 8yria and ibr Euro{)e. (The Lecturer here related ;in iii(;ident wliieh took place in Beyrout, so late as April 1855, in Avhich ho himself Avas an actor, showing the insults to Avhich the (Christians were exposed, and the (juarrcl:^ Avhich took places between them and the Mussulmen, whicii would have ])robably led ere long to oivil war.) The INIussulmen are noAv angry al)out tiie late treaty, but that feeling Avill wear aAvay in time; and 20 years hence Turkey, I hope and believe, Avill be a Olu'istiaii Country. We don't Avisii to drive the Mussulmen aAvay, ])ut to nudic them part and parcel of ourselves. O. happy day ! O, happy moment ! Avhen the banner of the Cross shall Avave over -lerusalem — the grave of my (Jreat Redeemer. If I could only see Ih'ft, I could die happy. I believe that it will happen, for the Lord has said : — "I will redeem her, I Avill make her a praise to all nations.'" Whoever supposed Avlien this War commenced, that it Avould lead to the overturning of the Great Eastern .h]mpi^ ? Who ever thought that by Turkey's rising up against Russia's oppression that Christianity would be forAvarded in tJic East? Nobody Avould have believed it, but it has coma to pass, mid you, tUougii far frora ^ym, luay yet como to look upon hor 39 as the dory of the world. I have devoted the energies of my S^e _^^^^^^^^^ and strength for the last eight years,-to excite In inte'Vin her. I felt very bad when it .^s Proposed *ha^^ vou should nay for your admission here to night. It is true you Ta^et^brLked'topay much, but I -nt .^/ to^~^^^ about Syria. I ^n ant every heart to say, I/^f/^^^^^^^^^ want vou to love Syria for Christ's sake. Contemplate youi S-iviom-Tn the garden of Gethscmane ! Think of the Crown of Ttorm on Ilfs brow ! Think of him dying-gaspmg for breath . Th nk of Him as he was borne along to the stone o unct on of His love, of His passion, of His death and burial ! „S-v, i "«k Lt but fov the grace of Gob, you .n.gl t have £ in the san.e state. Perhaps you ^v^l ^^^J^^^^l ™v ^tren.'th hii3 saveil me trom the anuikard s oi tlie Beggar s f7, m ^ir it is Goi. ! I want you to give with a loving ate No-Pr,^it«'|Oi i/„o collection to be taken because vou may yet have 1-. work for the whole wovhl. \oui liecause you ni. y y . ^^,,.^,^.^,4 ,„ n,,,iang ™„tt« rium^. . J f ^t^ ";. 1 ,(■ , d,„v thee uiy taith by my ™: kf " S c I ai-ri'wiUi which be speafe of faith w.thou oto. Tou say t., the hungry man, go an,l ho fed, bu yoiulo rr:;' h::* iii^S'' ^ ^l<> be a CH^tian costB yoi. I iiad uKtUj^uL VI rhooMo mv friends the eaiest litth^ to be a smnor a great deal. i^uooHt- iny m^ In best WMV Then you will have a Hunbug Father, to say, •Well d-ie thou goodlnd faithful servant, enter thou mto the joy of thy hoviV'—iA^plmise.) ■m iniiyii;»iiin ' .\1 ^\ mtHimmimi i ."%: l^hfi liftcture being coucluded, the Chairman, (Rev. F. Cr. ; McGregor,) announced that the . Lecturer would be happy to-j reply t6 any questioa* respecting Syria, which any of the audience might be disi'- ed to ask. No questiontJ, however, were asked. The Lecturer then rose and said, " I thank yon once more for your kindness and attention. Thanks to my different Chairmen. May the Lord bless you all. If you ever come my way, I shall be glad to return your kindness. I will think of you, when far away. Syria will think of you too. I^ shall ever consider as among the happiest moments of my life, \ the hours passed in this Hall addressing such numerous, respect- 1 able, and intelligent audiences. ^ I shall feel proud to get up an audience for you in Syria, if, any of you will Jionor us with a visit. I feel sorry to leave Halifax. It is not likely that we shall -^ver meet again unwl we stand at the Judgment seat, before the Oreat Judge of all — ?imv a God of mercy, fhen a God of Justice. May you live long, happy and ireful lives; mav .ycmr last hours be calm |pid peaceful, and may you be received at last into the Kingdom* of . your God and Sa\nour !" A vote of thanks was tlien passed by acclamation, the Doxo- logy was sung, and the meeting pronounced concluded. The audience however seemed unwilling to leave. Numbers of laxlies and gentlemen pressed forward to the platform to take a personal farewell of the liccturer, who received their congratulations in a graceful land kindly manner. Thus ^ended a series of Lectures which have probably excited a deeper inttnest in Halifax, than any which have been delivered in the city 'for years. Notwithstanding the injunction laid upon them by the Lecturer, the audiences carried away by his vivid and graphic descriptions, interrupted him with bursts of applau^. The other part of the suggestion "a good round at the endr' was not forgotten. KuRATA— 7t,li page, I'Jtli Hue, for " had" reatl "has"; 17t.h lino, after "present" ill >>rt "day"; ^)tlt page, 4 1 at line, after '"it" iusert a parenthe- h;h: -iOtli Datre. 4lBt lin«. fur " Indians" r«ad " Indian"; 20th page, mh Hue, for "tha" read " hia" ; HOth I'me, for " Sjg-a," read " »yvitk.- I • . S'w