In 1871 she published a further account of Egyptian life and of her mission work, under the title, Among the Huts in Egypt.  Meanwhile in 1867 she had contributed to the Leisure Hour, and afterwards issued as a volume, The Story of a Diamond.  Another story, Lost in Egypt, was written in 1881.  In 1873 Miss Whately published a biography of Mansoor Shakoor, and in 1881 she wrote Letters from Egypt for Plain Folks at Home.  In 1878 she published a story called Unequally Yoked, illustrating the miserable lives of English women who have been persuaded to marry Mohammedans, and in 1872 she wrote A Glimpse Behind the Curtain, a story of life in the harems of Cairo.  Her last book appeared in 1888 with the title, Peasant Life on the Nile.  With changed names and in a slightly veiled form, it recounts the history of some who received spiritual blessing through her mission work.  All her books are written in a simple unaffected style, and reveal an unrivalled acquaintance with Oriental character and the Egyptian mode of life.  Most of them are illustrated by engravings from her own sketches.

VIII.

RESULTS.

Writing in 1861 Miss Whately said, “The reaping time is not yet.” [1] Ten years later she writes:  “It is a missionary’s duty to sow beside all waters, and to lose no opportunity, even if his chance of doing good be but small.  The sower of the seed has need of much patience; and though he need not actually be expecting and looking for disappointment, as that would paralyse his efforts for good, he must yet be prepared for it.” [2] In this spirit of patience and perseverance Mary Whately carried on her work, and though her work was largely pioneering, she was not without encouragement.  Her hand was the first to begin to break down the wall of ignorance, prejudice, and bigotry which had for centuries shut in the people of Egypt.  She convinced thousands that the Christian book is a good book, and Christian men and women good people, despite the evidence to the contrary of so many in Egypt who bear the Christian name but do not live the Christian life.  The sentiments of the people are leavened by thousands among them who in youth passed through her schools, and there acquired an acquaintance with Scripture truth.  “Youths employed under Government, on the railways or in mercantile houses, who have received with the secular education which has secured their positions, a thorough knowledge of the Bible as its condition, continually greet her after they have quite outgrown her recollection.” [3] The teachers in later years were chiefly composed of those who had been pupils in the schools, and of whose conversion she had no doubt.  Thousands of poor sufferers were relieved by the Medical Mission, thousands of homes made happier by the visits of herself and her assistants.  Many of the Scriptures distributed on her Nile journeys were kept and read, and found afterwards in most unlikely places.