Excerpt from Journal of a Tour in the Holy Land: In May and June, 1840 The profits arising from the sale of this work are for the benefit of the ladies' hibernian female school society, which was formed in 1823, having, as its sole Object, the temporal and eternal interests of the female population of Ireland, by uniting a Scriptural education with those necessary arts of domestic and humble life of which they were, at that time, almost universally ignorant. The Society's labours have been much blessed. Many thousands of girls have, through its instrumentality, been fitted to fill the stations allotted to them by Providence, with respectability; and have evidenced, by their consistent conduct, the value of the Scriptural instruction received in the schools. The S0 ciety has 232 schools, containing scholars; a great proportion of whom are the children of Roman Catholics, who thankfully avail themselves of the instruction afforded them in these Protestant schools. The number of schools would be double, had the Committee funds oommen surate with the demands upon them; and the fact that this is the only Society labouring in Ireland for the exclusive benefit of the female children of that country, affords a powerful plea for assistance from British Chris tians, and particularly from British ladies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.