The Holy Land and the Bible; . ss, the president of the College, gets £400 ayear, without a house, rent costing him £55; Dr. Post, the presidentof the ]V[edical School, gets £300 a year, without a house, and noallowance for children, though he has liberty to practice as a physi-cian, if his profession do not interfere with College duties. He has ahospital under his charge, a very fine institution, open to all creedsand nationalities. As a rule, I was informed, missionaries do notknow their salaries till tliey are on the ground, remuneration beingtreated as altogether a secondary consideratioUj
The Holy Land and the Bible; . ss, the president of the College, gets £400 ayear, without a house, rent costing him £55; Dr. Post, the presidentof the ]V[edical School, gets £300 a year, without a house, and noallowance for children, though he has liberty to practice as a physi-cian, if his profession do not interfere with College duties. He has ahospital under his charge, a very fine institution, open to all creedsand nationalities. As a rule, I was informed, missionaries do notknow their salaries till tliey are on the ground, remuneration beingtreated as altogether a secondary consideratioUj since they come for the They that go down to the sea in ships, that dobusiness in great waters ; these see the works ofthe Lt)rd, and his wonders in the deep. Fur lie comniatideth, and raiseth the stormywind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. Theymount up to tlie heaven, they go down again tothe depths : their soul is melted because oftrouble. They reel to and fro, and staggerlike a drunken man, and are at their Then they cry unto the Lord[in their trouble, and he bring-eth them out of their dis-tiesses He maketh the storm a calm, so that the\\<, thereof are still. Then are they glad be-cause they be so quiet; so hebringeth them untotheir desired haven. Oh that men would praise the Lord for hisgoodness, and for his wonderful works to thechildren of men.—Psa. cvii. BAY OF BEIROUT, FROM DSCHERTA. (See pa^e 634.) ttt.] BElROOT. 631 sake of their Master, not of the pay. If they were men of theworld, said President Bliss, they might think about salary; asChristian soldiers, they are not on the same footing. Only the verybest men are accepted for the Missions, a thing possible from the highideal of missionary work kept before the mind of candidates. Thesalaries may be judged from examples. At Tripoli, the missionary, amarried man, gets £185 sterling,^ with his house-rent, £46, and £20a year for each child till it is eighteen. A bachelor, when he k
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