be assured, _we ourselves_ will
do the work: so take heed to your self accordingly.'"

Asaad was much affected by the interview. As soon as he found himself at
liberty, he stepped up into the loft where he sleeps, and threw himself
on his couch in prayer.

While in this attitude his next younger brother, Galed, knocked at the
door. I called to Asaad to inform him of the fact; but he gave me no
answer. I then invited Galed to another room, where Asaad soon joined us
with a full and heavy heart. The two brothers saluted each other with
embarrassment. Asaad evidently wished to be alone, and the brother,
after a few mild, unmeaning inquiries, left him.

_Begins to converse more pointedly with the People._

7. I yesterday advised Asaad to direct his conversations with the
people, as much as possible to their hearts, and say little or nothing
on the corruption of their church. He objected to the counsel. I
referred him to similar advice he gave me some months ago. "Ah," said
he, "I thought so then, but I now see that you cannot stir a step, but
you meet some of their corruptions." However, he to-day made the
experiment, and held an hour's conversation with two visiters on the
subject of regeneration. They both thought themselves renewed, but took
too little interest in the subject to confine their attention to it.
"You see," said Asaad, after they had gone, "how little they feel on
such a subject. It is painful to talk with such men. I would rather see
them contradict, and dispute, and get angry, or any thing, than to
appear so dead."

_Interview with a younger Brother._

Asaad's brother Galed came again to-day, and discovered more feeling
than yesterday on the subject of his brother's leaving the English. He
said he had brought an insupportable shame upon the family. Asaad
insisted, that such shame was no argument whatever for his leaving us;
that all the disciples of Christ were to expect it as a thing of course.
Galed assured him, that nobody would think of molesting him, if he were
at Hadet. I asked Galed if his brother Mansoor did not threaten
yesterday to kill him. He turned away, colored, and muttered something
that I did not understand; but the whole was a full acknowledgment of
the fact.

Asaad said, "I cannot confide in you."

"But," said Galed, "if any one were disposed to take your life, could
they not do it as well here, as at home?"

I answered, "no; that the emir Beshir himself could not enter m