There are now native Christian homes, not the least attractive of which is the home of her own little protege Raheel, but the great mass continue as they were forty years ago.

She says, "My dear friends, will you send your thoughts to this, which is not a heathen, but an unevangelized country.

I will not invite you to look at our little female school of twenty or thirty, because these form but a drop among the thousands and thousands of youth throughout Syria; although I might draw a contrast even from this not a little in your favor.

But we will speak of the young Syrian females at large, moving in one unbroken line to the land of darkness and sorrow.
Among them you will find many a fine form and beautiful face; but alas! the perfect workmanship of their Creator is rendered tame and insipid, for want of that mental and moral culture which gives a peculiar charm to the human countenance.

It is impossible for me to bring the females of this country before you in so vivid a manner that you can form a correct idea of them.