8/29 Day before yesterday a wealthy Jewish lady came with her two daughters to the school, and begged me to take the youngest as a scholar." July 19. "At our Sabbath School to-day were _twenty-eight_ scholars, twenty-one girls and seven boys." July 31. "To-day I closed my school for the month of August by the distribution of rewards to _thirty little girls_. The American and English Consuls and a few Arab friends were present, and expressed much pleasure at the sight of so many young natives in their clean dress. A few of the more educated scholars read a little in the New Testament." August 8. |