For years this institution was carried on in Lulu's house, and she was the Matron while Rufka was the Preceptress, and its very existence is owing to the patient and faithful labors of those two Christian Syrian women.

If any one who reads these lines should doubt the utility of labors for the girls and women of the Arab race, let him visit first the squalid, disorderly, cheerless and Christless homes of the mass of the Arab villagers of Syria, and then enter the cheerful, tidy, well ordered home of Mr.and Mrs.Araman, when the family are at morning prayers, listen to the voice of prayer and praise and the reading of God's word.

Instead of the father sitting gloomily alone at his morning meal, and the mother and children waiting till their lord is through and then eating by themselves in the usual Arab way, he would see the whole family seated together in a Christian, homelike manner, the Divine blessing asked, and the meal conducted with propriety and decorum.

After breakfast the father and Katie go to the Seminary to give their morning lessons, Henry (named for Dr.De Forest) sets out for the College, in which he is a Sophomore, and the younger children go to their various schools.

Lulu's place at church is rarely vacant, and since that "relic of barbarism" the _curtain_ which separated the men from the women has been removed from the building, the whole family, father, mother, and children sit together and join in the worship of God.