EGYPT'S PRINCES.

A NARRATIVE OF

MISSIONARY LABOR IN THE VALLEY OF THE NILE.

BY

REV. GULIAN LANSING, D.D.,

MISSIONARY IN EGYPT OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
UNITED STATES.

"Princes shall come out of Egypt."-Ps. lxviii. 31.

SECOND EDITION.

PHILADELPHIA:
WILLIAM S. RENTOL;

25 NORTH SIXTH STREET.

NEW YORK: ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS; -FITTS-
BURG: U. P. BOARD OF PUBLICATION.-LONDON:
HAMILTON, ADAMS & CO.-EDINBURGH:

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864,

By ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

The Need of a Boat; Season of Travel; Missionary Re-

porting; Setting out; The First Missionary Work; The

Nile Boat.

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CHAPTER II...

The Blind Schoolmasters; Coptic Churches; The First

Teacher; A Christian Lord; Selling Books; A Coptic

School; Copts in Ghinneh; Approach to Luxor; Luxor;

The Bishop; Church Service; The Mass; A Coptic

Priest; Priestly Power; Priestly Wealth; Instructions;

Erment; Productions; Needs; John Markus.

CHAPTER III...............

Bastinado; Punishments; Government; Retribution;

Baking; Temple at Esneh; Sowing; A Bishop's Letter;

Mission Work; Esneh; Invitation to Preach; Danger

and Escape; Fasts; A Protestant Book; Luxor; Pros-

pects.

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CHAPTER IV.....

Vaccination; New Measures for Vaccination; Mission

Work; School Building Begun; The Virgin Mary; A

Temple Home; Style of Living; Hints from the Bishop;

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Oriental Mourning; Mourning Women; Funeral Pro-

cession; Duration of Oriental Mourning; Priestly Con-

solations; Ancient Funerals.

CHAPTER V...

Illness of the Bishop; Oriental Visions; Coptic Authors;

Civilizers; Fallacies; Defects; The Facts; Oppressions;

Degradations; Inhumanities; Assumptions; The True

Reformer.

CHAPTER VI....

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Lord Haddo; Bible Work; A Bishop; The Bishop;

Strategy; The Design; Coptic Superstitions; The Pa-

triarch's Death; Gospel Teachings; Tyranny; General

Degradation.

CHAPTER VII..........

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Books; A Scene; Oppressions; A Bishop; Priestly Cor-

ruptions; Teaching; A Plan; Its Success; A Vision;

Episcopal Power; Incidents.

CHAPTER VIII..

The Bishop; A Rifle 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 Eng-

lish; The Children; Fam Stephanus.

CHAPTER IX..................

Journeying; Sabbath Work; Self-Imposed Bondage; Re-

ligious Services; Doctrinal Discussions; Power of

Truth; Religious Ceremonies; Singing Psalms; A

Night's Feast; Incidents; Instruction; Conscientious

Sin.

CHAPTER X...................

Christian Schools; The Bishop; Mummies; Muslem Fes-

tivities; Scripture Allusions; Hieroglyphics; Festal

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