As I walked home about sunset this evening, I thought, 'Can it be that I am a schoolmistress, and the only one in all Syria ?' and I tripped along with a quick step amid Egyptians, Turks and Arabs, Moslems and Jews, to my quiet and pleasant home." November 9.

"I sometimes indulge the thought that God has sent me to the females of Syria--to the little girls, of whom I have a favorite school--for their good." January 5, 1835.

"On Friday I distributed rewards to twenty-three little girls belonging to my school, which, as they are all poor, consisted of clothing.

Our Sabbath School also increases.

Eighteen were present last Sabbath." On the 11th of January Dr.Thomson wrote, "Mrs.Smith's female school prospers wonderfully, but it is the altar of her own health; and I fear that in the flame that goeth up toward heaven from off that altar, she will soon ascend as did Manoah's angel.