Things seen in Palestine . cultivating the virtues ofhope, of liberty, and of independence. J95 Things Seen in Palestine Formerly it was vain to seek to arousethe spirit of self-help ; vain to urge thepeople, however personally ambitious, toact for themselves. Why always dependupon those alien in race, religion, and senti-ment for your schools and your hospitals ?Why allow your children to lose theirnational dress, religion, sentiment ? to bebrought up, in many cases, mere second-rate copies of not always first-rateEuropeans ? The answer, whether fromMoslem or Christian, was always the same :
Things seen in Palestine . cultivating the virtues ofhope, of liberty, and of independence. J95 Things Seen in Palestine Formerly it was vain to seek to arousethe spirit of self-help ; vain to urge thepeople, however personally ambitious, toact for themselves. Why always dependupon those alien in race, religion, and senti-ment for your schools and your hospitals ?Why allow your children to lose theirnational dress, religion, sentiment ? to bebrought up, in many cases, mere second-rate copies of not always first-rateEuropeans ? The answer, whether fromMoslem or Christian, was always the same : If we could get firmans (Governmentlicences) for our Institutions, as theforeigners do, we would soon be indepen-dent ! This was no mere talk; the veryweek that the Constitution was proclaimeda Constitutional School, was planned,and shortly opened, in Jerusalem, by youngmen of the Committee of Union andProgress, Moslem, Greek and Latin, whowould, however, be the first to acknowledgethat it was by attendance at European 196. SHKPIIKRDS AT BKTHLKHEM. The coat, abbai, which they wear is the garment, which, in the case of Jesus,was without seam. This is a costly distinction. Social Conditions schools that they were enabled to becometeachers themselves. No place has profited more from theadvantages offered by foreigners thanBeirut, where the two Colleges, Jesuit andAmerican, have for many years educatedmost of such youth of the country as havereceived any higher education at all. Evenhere the people are doing somethingalready for themselves. The Bishop of theGreek Church—a native of the country—isestablishing large schools for boys and girls,where they will learn their own languageand literature, and take pride in their race. It would be easy to multiply instances;perhaps none shows better the advance inthe possibilities of civilization than thefoundation—also as a result of the Con-stitution—of a Society for the Preventionof Cruelty to Animals. For years—atintervals—som
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