Parables, speaking in, 140-66; and proverbs, Oriental makes no distinction between, 140; fondness of Oriental for, 140, 141; sociableness of, 142. Parents, honoring and obeying, 51-55, 335, 336. Passover, feast of the, 49. Path, the beaten, 301, 302. Patron saints as heavenly messengers, 12. Paul, his statements concerning the Syrian attitude toward women, 325-33. Pebble, the covering of the, 203, 204. Personality, secret of, an impenetrable mystery, 4. Pessimism, 45. Peter, his experience in the palace of the high priest, 177, 178; Jesus and, 183; his vision, 276-79. Pilgrimage, meaning, to a Syrian, 13, 14; the _zeara_, 13-17, 47, 48; of Jesus to Jerusalem, 47-51; still common in Syria, 47; occasion of union among the common people, 221. Place of residence, the term, 243. Plough, the Syrian, 286-88. Poetry, dominant feature of Oriental speech, 108; description of feminine loveliness in, 354, 355. _Porter_, in translation of the Bible, 298. Positiveness of speech, Oriental fondness for, 118, 132, 183-88. Prayer, 15; the Lord's, 196. Prayers of the Scriptures, due to persistence in petitioning, 180. Praying on the housetop, 275-79. Presentation of child at temple, 37. Prodigal son, parable of the, 142, 152, 155-61, 206, 207. Pronunciation of the Syrians, 176-78. Protestantism, 409. Proverbs, use of, an Oriental characteristic, 140; and parables, Oriental makes no distinction between, 140. Psalms due to persistence in petitioning, 180. Purification period, 38. Purse, the, 252. _Rada'_ (cloak), 121, 122. _Radha_ (good pleasure), 335-39. Rag trees, 376. Rationalism, modern, 19. Rebecca, 23, 26. Reclining at meals, 224-30. _Refuge_, use of the term, 241, 244. Religion, gives life and beauty to culture, 85; the course of, has been from the East to the West, 405. Religions, the three greatest, have originated in Syria, 86. Remembrance, 63-65. Reproduction, attitude of Eastern peoples toward, 25, 26; attitude of Anglo-Saxons toward, 26. Retribution, 133-39. Revenge, idea of, lies deep in Oriental nature, 91. Rome, 405, 407. Roof. _See_ Housetop. St. John's Gospel, the purpose of, 343-45. Sacrament, feasts and, 56-71. Salt, used at births, in Syria, 28; bread and, 191-95, 238. "Salted, " 28-30. Salutation, the Oriental method of, 255-58. Sarah, 26. Scribes and pharisees, rebuke of, 132, 133. Scrip, the, 250. Scriptures, spring from soil whose life is active sympathy of religion, 85. Scriptures, the. _See_ Bible. Sermon on the Mount, the, 97. "Seventy times seven, " 133-39. Sheep, lost, parable of the, 152, 206-08; the killing of the, 231-33; the calling of, by name, 299; the return of, at evening, 300; guided by the shepherd, 301, 302; the gathering of, 303; their trust in their shepherd, 307. Sheepfolds, 295-98. _Shelter_, use of the term, 241, 244.