the skilful superintendent of the American Press.

I send out this record of the work carried on in Syria with deep
gratitude for all that the Lord has done, and with an ardent desire that
it may be the means of bringing this great field more vividly before the
minds of Christian people, of wakening warmer devotion to the missionary
cause, and so of hastening the time when every Arab woman shall enjoy
the honor, and be worthy of the elevation which come with faith in Him
who was first foretold as the seed of the woman.

HENRY HARRIS JESSUP.
Beirût, Syria, Nov. 28, 1872.




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.
PAGE
_State of Women among the Arabs of the Jahiliyeh,
or the "Times of the Ignorance."_ 1

CHAPTER II.
_State of Women in the Mohammedan World._ 7

CHAPTER III.
_The Druze Religion and Druze Women._ 20