"On Saturday, our native female prayer-meeting consisted of twenty, besides two children.

Fourteen were Arabs, more than were ever present before.

We met in the girls' school room, where we intend in future to assemble.

We sung part of a psalm, as we have begun to teach music in our school.

We find the children quite as capable of forming musical sounds as those in our own country; but alas, _we have no psalms or hymns adapted to their capacities_.