THE WOMEN
OF
THE ARABS.
 WITH A CHAPTER FOR CHILDREN.
BY
Rev. HENRY HARRIS JESSUP, D.D.,
 Seventeen years American Missionary in Syria.
EDITED BY
Rev. C. S. ROBINSON, D.D., & Rev. ISAAC RILEY.
"The threshold weeps forty days when a girl is born."
—Mt. Lebanon Proverb.
NEW YORK:
DODD & MEAD, PUBLISHERS.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1873, by
DODD & MEAD,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
 THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED TO THE
CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF AMERICA.
Beirût, Syria, July, 1873.
Owing to the impossibility of my attending personally to the editing ofthis volume, I requested my old friends, Rev. C. S. Robinson,D.D., and Rev. Isaac Riley, of New York, to superintend thework, and would gratefully acknowledge their kind and disinterested aid,cheerfully proffered at no little sacrifice of time.
H. H. JESSUP.
PREFACE.
The Orient is the birthplace of prophecy. Before the advent of our Lord,the very air of the East was resounding with the "unconscious propheciesof heathenism." Men were in expectation of great changes in the earth.When Mohammed arose, he not only claimed to be the deliverer of amessage inspired of Allah, but to foretell the events of futurity. Hedeclared that the approach of the latter day could be distinguished byunmistakable signs, among which were two of the most notable character.
Before the latter day, the sun shall rise in the West, and God willsend forth a cold odoriferous wind blowing from Syria Damascena, whichshall sweep away the souls of all the faithful, and the Koranitself. What the world of Islam takes in its literal sense, we may takein a deeper spiritual meaning. Is it not true, that far in the West, thegospel sun began to rise and shed its beams on Syria, many years ago,and that in our day that cold odoriferous wind of truth and life,fragrant with the love of Jesus and the love of man, is beginning toblow from Syria Damascena, over all the Eastern world! The church andthe school, the printing press and the translated Bible, the periodicaland the ponderous volume, the testimony of living witnesses for thetruth, and of martyrs who have died in its defence, all combine to sweepaway the systems of error, whether styled Christian, Moslem or Pagan.
The remarkable uprising of christian women in Christian lands to a newinterest in the welfare of woman in heathen and Mohammedan countries, isone of the great events of the present century. This book is meant to bea memorial of the early laborers in Syria, nearly all of whom havepassed away. It is intended also as a record of the work done for womenand girls of the Arab race; to show some of the great results which havebeen reache                        
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