Fifty Three Years in Syria - Volume II

Henry Harris Jessup

• Publisher: Rowlands Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781406705256, 9781443721318
• eBook ISBN: 9781528760058

The author of this volume is One of the pioneers of the new historic era and the changing social order in the Nearer East. He is entitled to this distinction not because of direct political activity, or of any strenuous role as a social reformer, but because of those fifty-three years of missionary service in the interests of religious uplift, educational progress, social morality, and all those civilizing influences which now by general consent are recognized results of the missionary enterprise. It is a chronicle of eventful years in the history of Western Asia. It is necessarily largely personal, as the book is a combination of autobiographical reminiscence with a somewhat detailed record of mission progress in Syria. No one can fail to be impressed with the variety and continuity, as well as the large beneficence of a life service such as is herein reviewed. In versatile and responsible toil, in fidelity to his high commission, in diligence in the use of opportunity, in unwavering loyalty to the call of missionary duty, his career has been worthy of the admiration and affectionate regard of the Church. The writer of this introduction regards it as one of the privileges of his missionary service in Syria that for twenty-two of the fifty-three years which the record covers he was a colleague of the author, and that such a delightful intimacy has marked a lifelong friendship. Dr. Jessup has been a living witness of one of the most vivid and dramatic national transformations which the world's annals record, as well as himself a contributor, indirectly and unconsciously perhaps, yet no less truly and forcefully, to changes as romantic, weird, and startling as the stage of history presents. We seem to be in the enchanted atmosphere of politics after the order of the Arabian Nights. In fact, no tale of the Thousand and One Nights can surpass in Imaginative power, mystical import, and amazing significance, this story of the transportation of an entire empire, as if upon some magic carpet of breathless flight, from the domain of irresponsible tyranny to the realm of constitutional government. The cruel and shocking episode of massacre in transit seems to be in keeping with the ruthless barbarity of the despotic environment.

Index

A. B. C. F. M. turns Syria Mission over to Presbyterians, 373 et seq.

Abbas Effendi, head of Babism, 605

his brother-in-law converted, 605

Abbott, Mrs. Maria, 49

marries Wm. M. Thomson, 49

Abcarius, John, 499

Abd el Kadir, his courage and humanity, 196 et seq., 201

tribute of Prince Schamyl, 202

visit to de Lesseps, 264

Abd ul Aziz, Sultan, 267

photographed, 269

deposed 449

assassinated, 449

Abdullah, Asaad, pastor, 577

Abdul Hamid II, Sultan, succeeds Murad V, 449

decorates M. Bistany, 484

Abu Selim Diab, my first teacher, 114, 115

Abyssinians, 81

Adonis myth, 129, 130, 131

Aiken, 22, 23, 24

Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, visit to Beirut, 247

captured by Bedawy, 248

Ali Beg, Hamady, 102, 103

American influence summarized, 793

American naval officers, 764

American products and devices, introduced by missionaries, 360–361

American rights in Turkey, 489

protected by England, 621, 623

Senator Sherman’s unpatriotic stand, 622

ineffective status of our minister, 644

Oscar Straus’s influence, 644

Consul Ravendal’s efficiency, 644

Consul-General Dickinson probes the Spaffordites, 647

pecuniary estimate, 651

attack on United States consul, 729

Leishman’s reason for ineffectiveness, 740

resigning American citteenship, 751

Anderson, Rufus, D. D., 17, 24, 34, 42, 52, 97

Angeli, Minister to Turkey, 643

Anglican High Church hostility, 475

Anti-Chalcedonlans, 79

Anti-Ephesians, 79

Antioch, 17

destroyed, 414

Antiques and archæological finds, 265

Shapira’s spurious Moabite collection, 423

Phœnician antique factory, 505

supposed sarcophagus of Alexander, 507

the wonderful fluid preservative, 507

the Dog River inscriptions, 539–540

the Arabic tablets in China, 461

Hadrian’s forest preserve boundary, 741

German aid, 751

Apologetics in Arabic: the “Bakurat,” 567

the “Minar ul Hoc,” 602

Arabi Pasha Rebellion, 471 et seq.

Arabic Bible—see Bible

Arabic books for use in New York, 756

Arabic encyclopædia, 484–486

Arabic language, a barrier, 21, 290, 361

studying, 114

its use in the college, 304

mispronunciations, 361

its use in theological school, 496

style of in Bible, 75

style of in preaching, 56, 143, 746

style of in letter writing, 115

Araman, Michaiel, 488

Araman, Lulu, his wife, 672

Archaeology—see Antiques supra

Armenians (sect), 81

Armenian massacres, 1894, 606 et seq., 614

1896, 617

Hopkinson Smith’s error, 620–621

see Cilician

Arrak, Syrian whiskey, effect, 731

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Illustrations
• XIX. Notable Visitors and Converts
• XX. A Cholera Year
• XXI. Helps and Hindrances
• XXII. Mission Schools
• XXIII. Sketches (1887)
• XXIV. Three Years of Progress (1888)
• XXV. Marking Time
• XXVI. A New Century Dawns (1899–1900)
• XXVII. The Whitening Fields (1901–1902)
• XXVIII. My Latest Furlough—Years 1903–1904
• XXIX. Jubilee Times (1905–1907)
• XXX. What Shall the Harvest Be?—January 1908–May 1909
• Appendices
• Index