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The Women of the Arabs

CHAPTER VII
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The large missionary map is hung in the sitting-room, and all are asked in turn to give some fact respecting the field in question.

Even the youngest, who have not yet learned to read with facility in their own language, furnish their mite of information.
"The instruction in this school has been given by Dr.and Mrs.De Forest, aided by Mrs.De Forest's parents and the two elder pupils who have rendered such efficient aid heretofore.

The pupils of all the classes have made good progress in their various studies, and their deportment has been satisfactory.

They are gaining mental discipline and intellectual furniture, and have acquired much evangelical knowledge.
Deep seriousness has been observed on the part of some of the elder pupils at different times, and they give marked and earnest attention to the preached word.
"In our labors for the reconstruction of society here, we feel more and more the absolute need of a sanctified and enlightened female influence; such an influence as is felt so extensively in America, and whose beneficent action is seen in the proper training of children, and in the expulsion of a thousand superstitions from the land.

Christian schools seem the most evident means of securing such an end.


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