The English Missionary Societies, who have been longer
in Palestine than any Europeans except the Franciscan
friars, are entirely indifferent to such interests, although, to
one of their clergy — ^the Rev. Edward Hanauer, Jerusalem
bom— archaeology is indebted in a degree of which the pub-
lic, especially in Jerusalem, knows little, his learning hav-
ing been given to the world mainly over the signatures of
those who have profited by his conversation.
One would suppose that the EngUsh point of view as to
the division of the world of Jerusalem into EngUsh and
foreigners, might be conceivably modified by the fact that
certain foreigners are Protestants.^ Unfortunately, however,

^ '* Protestant *' is, in Turkey, the official name for all beliefs
collectively which are not Moslem, Jewish, Latin or Greek. There

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WHAT IS JERUSALEM LIKE

for the cause of social unity, they are also Germans ; and
although we have prospered at home for a couple of centuries
under a German dynasty, we are here unable to hold out the
hand of fellowship to those who own the hospital which
nurses the English sick, and the post which for the most part
conveys the English letters, to whom, moreover, we owe
most of the shops which purvey our European comforts
and conveniences.
