Talitha Kumi, a school for girls, was founded by deaconesses and has trained many Arabian girls as teachers in Palestine and Syria. In 1908 it educated 137 white and half white pupils. The mothers of a number of the pupils were educated here. Arabian girls have become good deaconesses. An outgrowth of this work was the Seminary to train Arabian girls as teachers of elementary schools.

The Syrian Orphanage includes 8 branches of work: The Syrian Orphanage for boys from Palestine and Syria has given an Evangelical education to more than 2,000 boys in the Holy Land. It has a chapel and regular services for the 539 persons connected with the home. The buildings were burned in June 1910, but they were soon rebuilt at a cost of 2,000,000 marks by its friends. The Girls' Orphan Home, where in 1809 there were 38 girls from the Holy Land. The Armenian Orphan Home, that began with 114 Armenian orphans. The Industrial Institute, where farming, tailoring, shoemaking, printing and other trades are taught. The Evangelical Arabian Boys' Preparatory School, with 400 scholars. The Seminary, with a Preparatory

CHRISTMAS CHURCH, Built of Stone on Highest Point in Bethlehem, Palestine. Its Colored Glass Windows are Scenes from Bethlehem. School, where Arabian Preachers, Evangelists and Teachers are educated. The Home for the Blind, (Blindenheim) caring for 60 blind persons. It was endowed by a legacy of 220,000 marks given by Count Münnich of Dresden, which cannot be used for buildings. The Farm Colony Bir-Salem on the plains of the Philistines on the Mediterranean coast not far from the harbor city of Jaffa. The Congregation, that is composed of former pupils who married Evangelical wives and settled near the Home, numbered 250 souls in 1909 without counting the pupils, is growing from year to year. In 1908 the southwestern mountain facing Nazareth in Galilee was bought, where "The Galilee Orphan Home in Nazareth" is being built by gifts from many lands. Thus new interest is awakened in the home of Christ's boyhood days. In 1902 the Syrian Orphanage opened a school in Jerusalem, in the Christian quarter, to care for the second and third generations of its pupils, who moved into the city. A few months after it opened, it reported 120 pupils.

The Syrian Orphanage celebrated its 50th anniversary April, 1910, dur ing the Mount Olive dedication festivities and burned the following June.

The Jerusalem Union, organized in 1852, with a yearly income of 139,832 marks (in 1913), reports 2 central and 3 outstations, 4 deaconesses, 354 church members and 12 schools with 500 pupils among the Arabians. It also aids the 2 German churches in Haifa and Jaffa.

Work Among the Arabians. Jerusalem: The Arabian pastor, Farhud Kurban, preaches in Arabian in the Muristan chapel of Jerusalem and cares for the Arabians in the parish of the Erloeser church, the sick in the deaconess hospital and gives Bible instruction in Talitha Kumi, and preaches every two weeks in the Moravian Lepers Hospital. He is kept busy as he performs all the ministrial acts for the Protestant Arabians. A day school for boys (80 pupils) and a school for girls (212 pupils) with two teachers each, are conducted in the Arabian tongue.

Bethlehem. The two congregations with its Christmas church, parsonage, school, deaconess residence, and the large Orphan Home near the city, give a colonial and an Arabian pastor, 12 teachers and 2 deaconesses more work than they can do. The Arabian boys school has 3 teachers and 100 pupils, the Arabian school for girls 2 teachers and 85 pupils, the Arabian small childrens school of 50 children is managed by a deaconess, while the Armenian Orphan Home has 50 Arabian orphans, 5 teachers, housefather and wife, and 1 deaconess. Bethlehem has also a hospital with a clinic in charge of a Swedish doctor.

The Evangelical Congregation of Bethlehem in 1906 numbered 26 families, 150 souls. The Sunday services were attended by 25 to 45 grown persons, the children services by 100 to 180. Regular Wednesday evening Bible institution is maintained.

Betjala. This Arabian Evangelical Congregation, with a church, parsonage, school and kindergarten, supports an Arabian pastor and an evange list, an Arabian school for boys (3 teachers and 90 pupils), and an Arabian school for girls (2 teachers, 95 pupils), and an Arabian kindergarten (2 teachers, 78 pupils. Hebron maintains an Evangelist and a boys' school of 25 pupils. Bet Sahur: An Arabian Evangelical congregation with a mission house, an Evangelist, an Arabian school for boys (2 teachers and 33 pupils), and an Arabian school for girls (26 pupils).

Work Among the Colonists. Haifa: church building, parsonage, school house, women's sewing society, church choir and a school with 2 teachers and a deaconess. A daughter colony, Umm-el-amed, has been founded on the plains of Jesreel, and the first Evangelical church in Galilee is to be built. The congregation of Haifa numbers 234 members, counting those scattered in Galilee and Samaria. The Jaffa-Sarona Congregation celebrated its 25th anniversary July 1911, and reports a church and a parsonage, a young men's society, a young women's society, a women's sewing society, and a church choir. The school supports 2 teachers. A call has been sent forth for help to build a deaconess hospital in this harbor city to the holy city to relieve the suffering of all nations and beliefs through the ministry of the deaconesses. The German colonists, including women and children, number 800 and they have collected 10,000 marks, and may later take over the management of the hospital. The hospital with 24 beds will cost 120,000 marks. Persons, who visited the Holy Land and have seen with their own eyes the diseases and sufferings that reign everywhere, are especially asked to give to this new building. The call goes also to all who have an open heart and hand for Christian love that is active in good and merciful deeds. The cost price of the site has been secured.

The German Evangelical Congregation of Jerusalem. In the yearly report of the Jerusalem Union of Berlin for 1908 it was rightly emphasized that it is of special value that in the Holy Land there are German Evange lical congregations to set living examples of Christian life to the natives of the land. That is an advantage the Jerusalem Union has over many societies in other parts of the world. The congregation of Jerusalem serves 183 Germans and 750 souls in all, including the Arabians in the institutions who understand German. All five ordained ministers in the German Evangelical Institutions of Jerusalem are in the service of this congregation. The first church council of the congregation was elected in 1908. The president of

the council is the pastor of the Erloeser church and the pastor of the Syrian Orphanage is the vice president.

After more than six years of fruitful labor Dr. Bussmann resigned in January, 1910, and at the end of March Dr. Jeremias of Dresden was in charge of the work. Near the Erloeser church the Jerusalem Stiftung erected a large building to be a Hospice or home hotel for Evangelical pastors and members of the Archaeological Institute, and to contain rooms to be used for lectures and congregational meetings. During the dedication festivities on Mount Olive its corner stone was laid April 11, 1910, by President Voight of the Evangelical Oberkirchenrat. The founder of the Hospice, Mrs. Oelbermann of Cologne, who had given 1,000,000 marks to it, was present at the corner stone laying and gave an additional sum that the hall for meetings might be built larger.

The Foundation for Archaeological Science in the Holy Land supports in Jerusalem the German Evangelical Institute of Archaeology of the Holy Land, under the leadership of Prof. D. Dallmann, for research work in the languages, history and topography of the Holy Land. The Institute was dedicated November 15, 1904. It has a big field and is doing excellent work. Its museum and library are growing and are giving good service. Courses of lecture are offered in February, March and April on "Jerusalem and vicinity", "Solomon's Temple", and like subjects. Students in Europe, 7 in 1911, receive scholarships to study three months a year here. With their professors they make tours through Jerusalem and vicinity and the Holy Land. The Institute has issued regularly since 1905 the "Palestine Year Book" (Published by Mittler und Sohn, Berlin, S W 68 Koch Strasse, bound 3.50 marks). It presents yearly the life and work of the Institute in biblical and ecclesiastical archaeology in relation between the cities of sacred history and modern learned research and nurses, revives and directs interest in Christian piety and life. It is the best work on the subject and worthy of close study.

The Conference of German Evangelical Pastors of the East, or rather of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, includes the congregations of Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Beirut, Smyrna, Saloniki, Alexandria and Cairo. Small in numbers, it is a local district organization of large, historic cities, of old settlements and able pastors, who understand the people and the land and exert a quiet and constant influence among the natives, which is not where the colonists are unorganized. At their yearly meetings, as in Jaffa in April, 1914, both theoretical and practical subjects are discussed and their literary work stimulated. The organ of the Conference, "Die Deutsche Kirche im Orient" (The German Church in the Orient), printed in Jerusalem and edited in Cairo, is a periodical of high standard and meets all needs. The paper and all their work are a blessing to the increasing number of tourists and seamen, and exert a reflex influence for good upon Europe. Dr. Jeremias, pastor of Jerusalem, is the president. His predecessor, Dr. Bussmann, who had labored in Buenos Aires, South America, was a leader in founding the Conference.

The Empress Augusta-Victoria Foundation on Mount Olive was dedicated April 9, shortly after Easter, 1910, in the presence of Prince and Princess Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, President Voigt of the Oberkirchenrat and Oberkonsistorialrat Lahusen, both of Berlin. Its work is threefold: to found and maintain a home for the fever stricken tourists in the hot season, who cannot continue their journey, and may be helped by the high and pure air of the Mount from which our Saviour ascended; an inn or hospice for pilgrims and tourists from November to May; and a center on festive occasions for Evangelical German life in Palestine and Syria. A house-keeping school and a pensionate for German girls in Palestine are connected with it, superintended by Kaiserswerth deaconess Theodora Barkhausen, a daughter of the late President of the Prussian Oberkirchenrat. The cost of these buildings was 2,500,000 marks. They were erected in response to a request of a committee of a Palestine congregation to the German Emperor in 1908 for such a home with rooms and halls for festive gatherings and other purposes. This vast compound of buildings consists of two great parts. The one in the north, east and west form a large cross. On the south side the large court encloses high buildings for the Ascension church and a tower, and for festive, dining and social rooms. From the tower the outlook beyond the Jordan and round about is thrilling and unforgetable. The work

is all completed, even the cisterns, garden, walks and planting, although it was difficult to secure labor during war times.

Mount Olive Society. The Augusta-Victoria Pfingsthaus-Stiftung (The Augusta-Victoria Pentecost House Foundation) in Postdam has taken possession of the buildings. In 1911 the Mount Olive Society was founded that has 850 members and in 1913 received 50,000 marks as annual gifts. From the care of strangers and recuperating guests, even at the low prices charged, it clears yearly 10 to 12 thousand marks. The work is expected to be selfsupporting with the aid from the Mount Olive Society. The site, cisterns, gardens cost 460,000 marks; the buildings 2,435,000 marks instead of 1,860,000 as first thought, endowment 140,000 marks, total 3,035,000 marks and all is paid. A walk to the Mount of Olives is now the most delightful outing for the congregation in Jerusalem. Often on festival days 300 adults and children visit there. An endowment is to be raised, the interest of which will support the work. A Medical Committee of the highest authorities has been sent to Jerusalem to study all infective diseases. The Turkish Government authorities welcomes the work. A health headquarter has been established for all races and creeds.

The German Moravian Leper Asylum, "Jesushilfe", which has been a great blessing to the many lepers in Palestine, cares for 52 lepers with a housefather and his wife and six sisters.

The Evangelical Jerusalem Foundation aids old and founds new Evangelical institutions and enterprises in Jerusalem, especially churches and schools. Its special work has been the building of the Erloeser (Saviour's) church, parsonage, school and teacher's parsonage in the holy city.

The Temlers came to Palestine in the sixties of the last century under the lead of the Wuerttemberg theologian, Christoph Hoffmann, to gather the people of God according to the prophecies of the Holy Scriptures. They are today engaged in farming, business and industries. They sustain five congregations in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Sarena, Wilhelma near Jaffa and Haifa, in all 1330 souls. Each settlement supports a German school.

BETHLEHEM.

O little town of Bethlehem,

How still we see thee lie;

Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;

Yet in thy dark streets shineth

The everlasting Light;

The hopes and fears of all the years

Are met in thee tonight.

Bethlehem, where Ruth gleaned the barley harvest, David watched his father's flocks, and the Angels sang, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."