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THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS.
[chap. vm.
at Jerusalem, and distributes advice and medicine gratuitously to
the crowds who seek for his assistance. He had just completed a
hosptial when I visited him, in which were wards for poor natives
of both sexes, and a couple of apartments for persons of a higher
class.*
At Beyrout, there is an establishment maintained by " the
Syrian Medical Aid Society," which appeared to me particularly
judicious, and likely to be of great benefit, beyond even that
highest of all human charities—relief from suffering. This so-
ciety is most fortunate in its officer, Dr. Kearns, who unites to
talents and acquirements of the highest order an unostentatious
but steady zeal for the spiritual as well as temporal objects of his
mission.
The service of our church is performed twice every Sunday at
Jerusalem by the bishop and one of the clergy attached to the
mission, in the morning, the service is read in English, in the
afternoon in German, for the sake of the Jewish converts. There
is a neat little chapel in the enclosure, purchased by the mission,
which, however, is only intended for temporary occupation while
the church is being built. The congregation consisted of about
thirty persons when I was there, among whom were the bishop's
and the missionaries' families, the Prussian consul, one or two
strangers, and eight converted Jews.
I have before alluded to the fact of permission having been
granted by Mehemet Ali for the building of our church: under
his government, the walls were raised to the height of about two
feet: England expelled the Egyptian from Syria, and gave Jeru-
salem to the Turks, who, in return, at once put a stop to the
English church, alleging a Moslem law, which forbids the con-
struction, or even the reparation of any ulace of Christian worship.
forded a gratifying proof of how deeply they appreciated his kindness and ser-
vices to their people.
* It may be taken either as a proof of the danger that the Rabbis anticipated
from this exhibition of practical Christian charity towards the Jews, or at least
as a proof of its efficacy, that Sir Moses Montefiore has lately sent over a
Hebrew physician to Jerusalem. I heard from Dr. McGowan, however, that
his practice was not in the least diminished by the arrival of this rival in hia
charitable labours, whom he spoke of as a gentleman of learning and liberality
THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS.
[chap. vm.
at Jerusalem, and distributes advice and medicine gratuitously to
the crowds who seek for his assistance. He had just completed a
hosptial when I visited him, in which were wards for poor natives
of both sexes, and a couple of apartments for persons of a higher
class.*
At Beyrout, there is an establishment maintained by " the
Syrian Medical Aid Society," which appeared to me particularly
judicious, and likely to be of great benefit, beyond even that
highest of all human charities—relief from suffering. This so-
ciety is most fortunate in its officer, Dr. Kearns, who unites to
talents and acquirements of the highest order an unostentatious
but steady zeal for the spiritual as well as temporal objects of his
mission.
The service of our church is performed twice every Sunday at
Jerusalem by the bishop and one of the clergy attached to the
mission, in the morning, the service is read in English, in the
afternoon in German, for the sake of the Jewish converts. There
is a neat little chapel in the enclosure, purchased by the mission,
which, however, is only intended for temporary occupation while
the church is being built. The congregation consisted of about
thirty persons when I was there, among whom were the bishop's
and the missionaries' families, the Prussian consul, one or two
strangers, and eight converted Jews.
I have before alluded to the fact of permission having been
granted by Mehemet Ali for the building of our church: under
his government, the walls were raised to the height of about two
feet: England expelled the Egyptian from Syria, and gave Jeru-
salem to the Turks, who, in return, at once put a stop to the
English church, alleging a Moslem law, which forbids the con-
struction, or even the reparation of any ulace of Christian worship.
forded a gratifying proof of how deeply they appreciated his kindness and ser-
vices to their people.
* It may be taken either as a proof of the danger that the Rabbis anticipated
from this exhibition of practical Christian charity towards the Jews, or at least
as a proof of its efficacy, that Sir Moses Montefiore has lately sent over a
Hebrew physician to Jerusalem. I heard from Dr. McGowan, however, that
his practice was not in the least diminished by the arrival of this rival in hia
charitable labours, whom he spoke of as a gentleman of learning and liberality