alas! remains to the Pilgrim, after he has spent him-` self in this way, for weeks and months?-a casket of beads!-some ornamented wax-candles; one, especially, which has been lighted at the Holy Fire! -and a Paper*, signed by the proper Ecclesiastical Authorities, certifying that he has visited all the Holy Places; and that, in brief, he has, by his pilgrimage, done God service, acquired merit, and procured the pardon of his sins, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary and all the Saints! Millions have come from far, to drink of this poisoned fountain, which they have mistaken for the Water of Life! * See Christian Researches in the Mediterranean, pp. 25, 26, Notices OF THE FORMER STATE OF RELIGION AND OF MISSIONS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN & LEVANT: WITH Bemarks and Suggestions RELATIVE TO FUTURE MEASURES. 335 WORK OF AN EVANGELIST, AND EDUCATION OF NATIVES. IN entering on those Remarks and Suggestions, which arise from studying-either through the medium of books, or by actual observation, or by the help of both the religious condition of the Levant, the first place is naturally given to duties of prime utility. It is not, however, designed, under the twofold title of this Chapter, to introduce any thing like a regular treatise on the interesting subjects therein specified. Many valuable works already exist, and many most appropriate addresses are continually presented to Missionaries, on these topics: it would be both superfluous and presumptuous, therefore, for the Author to pretend to any thing either novel or peculiarly instructive on these subjects in general. Neither is it his intention, by placing together the Work of an Evangelist and the Education of Natives, to intimate that there is any parity between the two, in respect of their importance. The first is a great, comprehensive, Scriptural Work; having all nations, all ages, all modes of wise and practical operation, within its scope-Education is a branch of useful service, intended almost exclusively for the benefit of the young, and not necessarily to engage the time and strength of the Evangelist; who has to study, preach, instruct, converse, correspond, travel; and, in these various successive engagements, he may rightly feel that he is performing one complete, individual work: but he, who undertakes to educate, must, to answer reasonable expectations, give himself almost entirely to this employment; attached to one place, to one object, and to one class of his fellow-creatures. In a certain degree, however, Missionaries have generally united both these engagements; or, to speak more correctly, they have, while aiming to perform the Work of an Evangelist, taken up, in a subordinate measure, and for a season, the particular branch of Educating the Young. Without further noticing their disparity, this circumstance alone might justify their being placed together in the following remarks. NOTICES OF PAST MEASURES. It is, however, principally on another account, that the two subjects have been thus blended in one title. In following up the plan which the Author proposed to himself, of exhibiting fully what Missionary Exertions have formerly been made in Syria and Palestine, and thus introducing his suggestions relative to future measures, he soon found, that, in the materials collected by him, the two subjects of Evangelizing and Educating are so generally interwoven together, that it would answer no good, practical end to attempt to separate them. The Romish Missions in the Levant have long been an interesting object of observation: although not to be approved for their fundamental principles, there is yet much to be learned from the consistency, per |