31/41 The girls opened their box the other day, and found that they had a little more than last year from their earnings. Some friends added a little, and they have now forty dollars. One half they send to China, and the other half give to the Church here. Her family is a model Christian family, the home of piety and affection, the centre of a pure and hallowed influence. Her eldest daughter Katie, named from Mrs.De Forest, is now a teacher in the Beirut Female Seminary in which her father has been the principal instructor in the Bible and in the higher Arabic branches for ten years. |