. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . their parishioners at such meetingsin the future. Mrs. Nelson, besides her weekly meetings for the women of thechurch, has opened a little kindergarten to get the small childrenfrom off the streets. This has met encouraging success and we hopeit may become a permanent part of the equipment of the city Nelson also made one tour during the year, spending a weekwith the little group of believers in Keferram. Miss Hunting has devoted her wh
. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . their parishioners at such meetingsin the future. Mrs. Nelson, besides her weekly meetings for the women of thechurch, has opened a little kindergarten to get the small childrenfrom off the streets. This has met encouraging success and we hopeit may become a permanent part of the equipment of the city Nelson also made one tour during the year, spending a weekwith the little group of believers in Keferram. Miss Hunting has devoted her whole time to evangelistic work,with Minyara as a center, and reports many helpful things fromthe experiences of the year. She was unfortunately hindered forsome months by illness and yet was able, through her assistant, tokeep her hand to a certain extent on the work. Her home in Minyarahas been a center of infiuence for righteousness, among a peoplewhose idea of a home is very crude. There has been a constantseries of meetings for women and children, calls made and received;and influence exerted at a longer distance through letters and SYRIA—SIDON 445 Miiny of the villaRos in the district were visited and a welcome wasfoumi everywhere, even anions, Moslems. The farther we so in thiswork, the more urgently apparent hecomes the need for greater sys-tematizing and organizing of tlie work, and especially for a definiteeffort to raise up and train an effective band of workers for womenfrom among the women of Syria. SIDON STATION EVANGEL! STIC—Til is work was necessarily limited bythe shortage of the working force. In last years report attention was called to the fact thatthe evangelistic work snffered because of lack of touring,when, though the one touring missionary was away fromhome 210 days out of the year, less than half of that wasgiven to visiting the 40 different places where there are Pro-testants, to say nothing of other places that are accessibleand would welc
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