ILLUSTRATIONS

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Henry A. Nelson Memorial—Tripoli Boys' School[Frontispiece]
Latakia Boys' SchoolFacing Page [34]
Tartoose—Crusaders' Church[34]
Aleppo Minaret[53]
Hadeth Summer Home[75]
Abu Maroon, the Hadeth Carpenter[75]
Homs—Boys' School[104]
Tripoli Boys' School—First Home[150]
Tripoli Boys' School—Second Home[150]
Homs[164]
Heathen Temple and Mount Hermon[164]
Hamidiyeh Mosque—Tripoli[169]
Old City Gate—Tripoli[169]

SILVER CHIMES IN SYRIA

SILVER CHIMES IN SYRIA

Chapter I ARRIVAL IN SYRIA

Every individual makes a new personal discovery, as with the passage of years, he realizes the difference between the long look forward over a given period, and the look backward over the same period, when it is completed. To the new arrival on the field the veteran of twenty-five years' experience appears to have spent a very long time in the service; but as he looks back over his own life, at the end of a similar period, he wonders that he ever entertained such an opinion. Looking back to the year 1888, the events of that time do not seem at all remote, and it is hard to realize that to anyone that year can appear a very long way in the past.