A member pays five piasters in advance for every three months, and one absent from a regular ses-sion without a compelling excuse is penalized the payment of one piaster. Of the monies gathered in

dues and gifts, part is spent on aiding the needy of all commu-nities, and part on the purchase of useful books and the printing of essays and booklets composed or translated by members of the society.

Its year begins on the first Saturday of November and ends on the last Saturday of June. It meets twice a month, and its meeting lasts an hour or more. Its annual recess is four months.

In this fashion, and under these rules, the society pursued its meetings for ten years, exceeding one hundred meetings. And hardly had a certain languor come over it before it returned once more to its struggle in it, down to the year 1893 — a span of fifteen years.

On March 12, 1881, "Bakurat Suriyya" resolved to elect a president for itself, annulling the decision of "the Christian Sisters" of December 13, 1879, that no one should preside. Hanna Atiq was elected president, and Sarah Khairallah succeeded her afterward.

When the formation of the society was complete, its echo reached London, and the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)

presented it with edifying book-lets, and repeated this for years. When it established its library, Dr. Cornelius Van Dyck, the American missionary, presented it with 25 books, and the like came from Ellen Jackson, Eliza Everett, Jirji Yanni, and Jabr Dumit, besides the rest of the members.

The two magazines al-Muqtataf and al-Jinan and the newspaper Lisan al-Hal asked it for its mem-bers' addresses, to publish them in their pages. Its members delivered at its meetings about one hundred addresses and forty discussions, of which I possess fifty addresses.

Those who gave the most addresses in it: Farida Hobeiqa, Hanna Atiq, Helaneh Baroudi, Hafiza Abd al-Nur, Sarah Khairallah, Yaqut Sarruf, Mariam Makarios, Nafja Rayyis, Mariam Antonius, Julia Hourani, Jamila Yaziji, Fumiya Gharzuzi, Ellen Bustani, Liza Thabit, Anastas Khoury, Esther Azhari.

It held a celebration on June 29, 1888, at which Sheikh Muhammad Abduh, "Mufti of Egypt," and Dr. Bishara Zalzal spoke. His address, "The Progress of the Homeland," is printed as a booklet.

Najib Antonius sent it an address on "The Etiquette of Refinement" in December 1884; Dr. Ibrahim Thabit attended the session of April 2, 1885; and Salim Sarkis wrote to it in June 1887, asking it to set down some thoughts on the manners of women, to include in a treatise he was composing on that subject.

"Al-Bakura" aided the St. George Hospital with two liras at its founding in 1883, took part in Dr. Van Dyck's jubilee in 1890, attempted to establish a branch of itself in Damascus in 1884, resolved upon a branch in Egypt in 1885, and adopted an emblem of its own.

Its meetings were held most often in the homes of Mariam Makarios and Sarah Khairallah and in the English school. Its members reached fifty active, thirty hon-

orary, and twenty corresponding, from the various communities and countries. There joined it also, from among the American and English ladies, Miss Jackson, Miss Everett, Miss Thomson, and Miss Watson.

We lost "Bakurat Suriyya" half a century ago, and most of its members have followed it, the last of them Evdokia Saad four months ago. Our consolation is that its president, Sarah Khairallah, one of its founders, still reminds us of it — may God prolong her life.

Nor do I forget its remaining pillars: Esther Azhari Moyal, who has kept on writing in the press for fifty-six years.

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