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The Women of the Arabs

CHAPTER X
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And what a long, I had almost said, tedious process! But I forget that to each one will be assigned a few only of these links.

We are doing a little, perhaps, in this work; if faithful, we shall rest in heaven, and others will come and take our places and our work." On the eleventh of June, Mrs.Smith's health had become so impaired from the dampness of the floor and walls of her school building, that her physician advised a sea voyage for her.

After suffering shipwreck on the coast of Asia Minor, and enduring great hardships, she reached Smyrna, where she died on the 30th of September, in the triumphs of the Gospel.
Her Memoir is a book worthy of being read by every Christian woman engaged in the Master's service.
In a letter written from Smyrna, July 28, she says, "I had set my heart much upon taking Raheel with me.

Parents, however, in Syria, have an especial aversion to parting with their children for foreign countries.
One of my last acts therefore was to make a formal committal of her into the hands of my kind friend Miss Williams.

I had become so strongly attached to the little girl, and felt myself so much rewarded for all my efforts with her, that the circumstances of this separation were perhaps more trying than any associated with our departure." Mrs.Smith had from the first a desire to take a little Arab girl to be brought up in her family, and at length selected Raheel, one of the most promising scholars in her school, when about eight years of age, and with the consent of her parents adopted her.


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