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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
communities to improve their own schools, or to found schools when they had none. There
are boys' and girls' schools for Jews, proselytes, and native Arabs, an industrial school for
Jews, a church and parsonage, a hospital, a German girls' orphanage, a German boys'
orphanage, a lepers' hospital, the hospital of the Kaiserswerth Deaconesses, a German Hospice
of St. John, &c. The Protestant Bishop, under an agreement between England and Prussia,
is nominated alternately by either power; the first Bishop, Dr. Alexander, was nominated
BIR EYUB—JOB'S WELL.
by England, the second, Dr. Gobat, by Prussia, and the present Bishop, Dr. Barclay, by
England.
The full effect of the efforts which have been made to ameliorate the condition of the
people of Jerusalem has, perhaps, hardly yet been felt, but gradually and surely education,
with all its civilising influences, is forcing its way amongst all classes, and a time may be looked
forward to, in the not far distant future, when the good seed sown in the Holy City will bear
fruit throughout the length and breadth of the Holy Land.
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
communities to improve their own schools, or to found schools when they had none. There
are boys' and girls' schools for Jews, proselytes, and native Arabs, an industrial school for
Jews, a church and parsonage, a hospital, a German girls' orphanage, a German boys'
orphanage, a lepers' hospital, the hospital of the Kaiserswerth Deaconesses, a German Hospice
of St. John, &c. The Protestant Bishop, under an agreement between England and Prussia,
is nominated alternately by either power; the first Bishop, Dr. Alexander, was nominated
BIR EYUB—JOB'S WELL.
by England, the second, Dr. Gobat, by Prussia, and the present Bishop, Dr. Barclay, by
England.
The full effect of the efforts which have been made to ameliorate the condition of the
people of Jerusalem has, perhaps, hardly yet been felt, but gradually and surely education,
with all its civilising influences, is forcing its way amongst all classes, and a time may be looked
forward to, in the not far distant future, when the good seed sown in the Holy City will bear
fruit throughout the length and breadth of the Holy Land.