Charges Against the Ben Oliel Mission
Mr. T. J. Alley, a religious worker in Jerusalem, a Methodist, sends out a pamphlet of twelve pages under date of February 18, 1895, addressed to a lady in Boston, setting forth that the “mission” of “the Rev. A. Ben Oliel” in Jerusalem is a snare to catch the dollars of the unwary, and that its manager is a “shrewd, insatiable money-getter.” It is said that he has money loaned out on usury, and is known among the Jews as “The Usurer.” Mr. Alley writes the more earnestly, because he was himself deceived, and he desires to save others from the trap. The U. S. Consul declares that the tract expresses “the general opinion of Christian workers in Jerusalem.”