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Title: Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Annual report of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Annual report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education. Annual report of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Annual report of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund. Annual report of the Board of the Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers. Annual report to the General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. Annual report of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies. Annual report of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Systematic Beneficence. Report of the General Assembly's Special Committee of the Presbyterian Church on Systematic Beneficence Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Permanent Committee on Temperance. Annual report of the General Assembly's Permanent Committee on Temperence for the year ending ..
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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His promises. For all of that, weshall probably never forget that first loaf of white bread. Before the end of the three days recess, a British officer called uponus and asked the*use of the school building for a Casualty Clearing Station,and we cheerfully granted his request, believing that the British could domore good in the building than we could at that time. Meanwhile we hadbeen obliged to disband the school temporarily, but in the following weekopened a small school in the city to preserve the name of the Tripoli BoysSchool, for we were told that it might be next to impossible to open uplater if we did not preserve the continuity of the schools existence. The British occupied the building for practically the whole yearunder review. Girls School.—Miss Eddy reports: School opened as usual in October, the veteran principal still withoutany American associate. The Syrian teachers numbered nine, of whom fiveresided in the school. The prices of supplies being still abnormal, it was
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1. Group of refugees on porch of old Abeih Seminary. 2. Conveyins bread and cooked food to village soup kitchen from SidonBoys School. 3. Children reeeiving- daily allotment of food near Sidon. SYRIA—SIDON 437 with great difficulty and the most careful planning that the necessary food,fuel, lights, and other equipment were obtained. The day schooi presented its own problems. The numbers were farin excess of former years, and a large majority of the pupils were Moham-medans. Discipline was difficult and the arrangement of classes perplexing,owing to the lack of home training and the very imperfect preparation ofpupils coming from other schools. Lack of knowledge of English made itespecially difficult to adapt the schedule. The long-desired arrival of the British army caused great rejoicing.Owing to the presence of the army, the use of the mission chapel waggranted to the chaplain in residence for a morning service before the hourof Arabic worship. The teachers of the school often att

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