I have ever thought these girls were under great obligations to the American Churches and the American Mission, who for so many years supported and instructed them, and I have ever tried to impress upon them a sense of their obligation to impart to others of their countrywomen what they had received.

I believe as early as 1836, they began assisting me in the Moslem school for girls in Jerusalem, in which they continued to assist Miss Tilden until the school was given up.
Soon after our removal to Abeih, October, 1844, we established a day-school for girls in the village on the Mission premises, of which Salome and Hanne had the entire charge under my superintendence.

When the Station at Mosul was established, Salome was appointed by the Mission to assist Mrs.Williams in her work among the women, in which work she continued until her marriage with Rev.John Wortabet.

Melita was afterwards appointed by the Mission to the Aleppo Station to assist Mrs.Eddy and Mrs.Ford in the work, and so they were employed at various stations in the work of teaching, until I left the Mission.

I have kept up a continual correspondence with them, and have learned from others to my joy, that they were doing the work for which I had trained them." The above deeply interesting letter from Mrs.Whiting is enough in itself to show what an amount of patient Christian labor was expended through a course of many years, in the education of the five young Syrian maidens who were entrusted in the providence of God to her care.
I have been personally acquainted with four of them for seventeen years, and can testify, as can many others, of the good use they have made of their high opportunities.