Henry Harris Jessup
Henry Harris Jessup (1832–1910) was an American Presbyterian missionary and author who devoted his distinguished career to evangelical missionary work in Syria (now Lebanon).
Biography
He was born at
He spent his first four years of service in
Jessup served as the acting pastor for the Syrian Church of Beirut and superintendent of its school for thirty years, teaching almost any grade. He also became the first secretary of the Asfuriyeh Hospital for the Insane, acted for a time as missionary editor for the Arabic journal El-Neshrah. Serving and teaching in Beirut tirelessly, he refused a professorship at Union Seminary in 1857, a position as secretary of the Presbyterian Board in 1870, and the post of United States minister to
Jessup also authored numerous books about Syrian history, which culminated in the work for which he is best known, Fifty-Three Years in Syria published in 1910, a two-volume memoir and historical account of his life there. He died and was buried in Beirut. Ted Jessup, the American Television writer and producer is a great great grandson of Reverend Jessup.
Writings
He wrote, besides various works for the American Press at Beirut:
- The Women of the Arabs (1873) – [1]
- Syrian Home Life (1874) – [2]
- The Mohammedan Missionary Problem (1879) – [3]
- The Greek Church and Protestant Missions (1884)
- The Setting of the Crescent and the Rising of the Cross (1898) – [4]
- Kamil, a Moslem Convert (1899)
- Fifty-Three Years in Syria (1910) – Volume 1 [5], Volume 2 [6]
Relating to the Bahá'í Faith
Jessup may have first encountered the religion following the petition sent by Persian Bahá'ís to the attention of the American government in 1867.[2] Jessup presented about the Bahá´í Faith twice. The first was during the 1893 World Parliament of religions,[3] which Baha'is consider to be the first public mention of the Baha'i Faith in North America, and the first public quoting on that continent of the words of Bahá'u'lláh, the Founder of the Baha'i Faith. Later Jessup also published in the Missionary Review.[4]
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.)
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References
- New York Times. 1910-04-29.
- ^ translated by Manuchehr Derakhshani; Nesreen Akhtarkhavari (2006). "An 1867 Petition from Bahá'ís in Shushtar, Iran, to the U.S. Congress". World Order. Vol. 37, no. 3. pp. 31–38.
- ^ "Henry H. Jessup, D.D., Makes an Eloquent and Instructive Address". The Inter Ocean. Chicago, IL. 24 September 1893. p. 2. Retrieved Mar 26, 2018.
- ^ "Babism and the Babites". The Missionary Review. Princeton Press. October 1902. pp. 771–775.