Egypt's princes : a narrative of missionary labor in the valley of the Nile ...

Front matter

FRONTISPIECE.

EGYPT’S PRINCES.

A NARRATIVE OF

Chapter II 27

The Blind Schoolmasters; Coptic Churches; Tho First Teacher; A Christian Lord; Selling Books; A Coptic School ; Copts in Ghinneh ; Approach to Luxor ; Luxor ;

The Bishop; Church Service; Tho Mass; A Coptic Priest; Priestly Power; Priestly Wealth ; Instructions; Erment; Productions; Needs; John Markus.

Chapter III 68

Bastinado; Punishments; Government; Retribution; Baking; Temple at Esnoh ; Sowing; A Bishop's Letter; Mission Work; Esneh ; Invitation to Preach ; Danger and Escape ; Fasts; A Protestant Book ; Luxor; Prospects.

Chapter IV 102

Vaccination; New Measures for Vaccination; Mission Work; School Building Begun; The Virgin Mary ; A Templo Home ; Style of Living ; Hints from the Bishop ;

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IV

CONTENTS.

Oriental Mourning; Mourning Women; Funeral Procession ; Duration of Oriental Mourning ; Priestly Consolations; Ancient Funerals.

Chapter V 130

Illness of the Bishop ; Oriental Visions ; Coptic Authors ; Civilizers ; Fallacies ; Defects ; The Facts ; Oppressions ; Degradations ; Inhumanities ; Assumptions ; The True Beformer.

Chapter VI 166

Lord Haddo; Bible Work; A Bishop; The Bishop; Strategy; The Design; Coptic Superstitions; The Patriarch’s Death ; Gospel Teachings ; Tyranny ; General Degradation.

CHAPTER YII 1’?9

Books; A Scene; Oppressions; A Bishop; Priestly Corruptions; Teaching; A Plan; Its Success; A Vision ; Episcopal Power ; Incidents.

CHATTER VIII 202

The Bishop; A Bifle Practice ; A Scene; Distinctions;

True Greatness ; Incidents ; Preaching ; The Bishop ;

A Feast; A Happy Bishop ; A Coptic Service; A Coptic Baptism; The Bishop; Mustapha; Americans and English ; The Children ; Fam Stephanus.

CHAPTER IX 236

Journeying; Sabbath Work; Self-Imposed Bondage ; Eeligious Services; Doctrinal Discussions; Power of Truth; Beligious Ceremonies; Singing Psalms; A Night’s Feast; Iucidents; Instruction; Conscientious Sin.

CHAPTER X 260

Christian Schools; The Bishop; Mummies; Muslem Festivities; Scripture Allusions; Hieroglyphics; Festal

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Procession; An Incident; Muslem Discussions ; Kindnesses.

CHAPTER XI 281

Transubstantiation ; At Negadeh ; A Noble Man ; The Egyptian Luther; Punishment ; Release ; Perplexity; Ibrahim.

CHAPTER XII 209

Moving ; A Faithful Man ; Convent Worship ; Bible Work ; Convent ; A Rich Man ; Opposition ; Chicken Hatching.

CHAPTER XIII 316

A Sight ; Working ; Book Shops ; Abd-el-Masic-h ; A Visit ;

The Cavalcade; The Nazir; Ibrahim, the Author; A Sick Case ; Benisouef— Fayourn ; Priest Makar ; Contrition— Blind Preacher ; Arrived at Cairo.

CHAPTER XI Y 342

Official Letters ; Punishment and Release ; A Scene on the Nile ; Paris ; El Kashif Cornered ; A Grand Dinner; “Will not Worship Wood “This is Paris;” Makhiel Ibrahim; Novel Cure for Drunkenness; “One of a Thousand.”

CHAPTER XV 364

Difficulties of Matrimony ; Repentance too Late ; Young Makhiel ; A Superstitious Student ; Makhiel Excommunicated; Young Makhiel as Preacher.

CHAPTER XVI 376

Inquisitive Wife; The Cotton Crop; The Slave Trade; Slavery in Egypt; The Oracle’s Wisdom at Fault; Preparation — The Caravan ; The Convent of Damiane ; Our Book-Shop Secured; The Selling of Books; The Chamber of Imagery ; Our Lady Damiane ; Superstitious Performances; Feasting and Drinking.; The

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CONTENTS.

Shadow Delusion; Adieu to the Sittna; A Remarkably Hot Day.

CHAPTER XVII. — Conclusion

The Civil Government ; The Classes of Population ; Religious Classes and Habits; Increased Enterprise, . Preaching and Teaching; Christian Missions; Its Promises of Christianity.