You cannot conceive of their deplorable ignorance.

I feel it more and more every day.

Their energies are expended in outward adorning of plaiting the hair and gold and pearls and costly array, literally so.

I close with one request, _that you will pray for a revival of religion in Beirut_." Again she writes, June 30, 1834, "I feel somewhat thoughtful, this afternoon, in consequence of having heard of the ready consent of the friends of a little girl, that I should take her as I proposed, and educate her.

I am anxious to do it, and yet my experience and observation in reference to such a course, and my knowledge of the sinful heart of a child, lead me to think I am undertaking a great thing.