EDITED BY
Rev. C.S. ROBINSON, D.D., & Rev. ISAAC RILEY.


"The threshold weeps forty days when a girl is born."
--_Mt. Lebanon Proverb._


NEW YORK:
DODD & MEAD, PUBLISHERS.


Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1873, by
DODD & MEAD,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.




_THIS BOOK_

IS DEDICATED TO THE

CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF AMERICA.




Beirût, Syria, _July, 1873_.