Fifty-three Years in Syria

✍ Scribed by Henry Jessup

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 498
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A massive undertaking, this widely read memoir of an American missionary in Syria and Lebanon during the nineteenth century has become a standard reference. Providing background and color for his own work, Jessup helps the reader understand some of the tragic incidents he faced, but also the optimistic sense of success that would eventually arise from the work he had done. Encompassing the spirit of travel and adventure characterized by the Gorgias Historic Travels in the Cradle of Civilization, this two-volume recollection will find avid readers from missions-minded laity and historians of Syria and Lebanon alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
XIX. Notable Visitors and Converts
XX. A Cholera Year
XXI. Helps and Hindrances
XXII. Mission Schools
XXIII. Sketches (1887)
XXIV. Three Years of Progress (i888)
XXV. Marking Time
XXVI. A New Century Dawns (1899-1900)
XXVII. The Whitening Fields (1901—1902)
XXVIII. My Latest Furlough—Years 1903-1904
XXIX. Jubilee Times (1905-1907)
XXX. What Shall the Harvest Be ?—January 1908-May 1909
Appendix I. Missionaries in Syria Mission From 1819 to 1908
Appendix II. The History—Bibliography
Appendix III. (a) List of American Medical Missionaries in the Syria Mission, 1833-1909
Appendix IV. 1903. List of Mission Schools of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in Vilayets of Beirut and Damascus
Appendix V. Outline of the History of the Syria Mission of the American Presbyterian Church and Contemporary Events, 1820 to 1900
Appendix VI. Figures," 1908-1909—Statistics of the Syria Mission
Appendix VII. Statistics of the Syrian Protestant College from 1866 to 1906
Index