fundamental lesson that the Bible class on Sunday has a vital connection with honest work in arithmetic on Monday, the settling of a quarrel on Tuesday, and the thorough sweeping of the schoolroom on Wednesday.  Right here it is that we see “the grace of God” at work in the hearts of big girls and middle-sized girls and little children from the villages.  When classes can be left to take examinations unsupervised, a big step forward is marked.  When before Communion Sunday the “queens” of their own initiative settle up the school quarrels and “make peace,” one has the glad feeling that a little bit of the Kingdom of God has come in one small corner of the earth.

[Illustration:  BASKETBALL AT ISABELLA THOBURN COLLEGE, LUCKNOW]

“Among you as He that serveth.”

Religious emotion may find one of its normal outlets in personal right-living.  That is good as far as it goes, but yet not enough.  It must seek expression also in making life better for other people.  The Indian schoolgirl lives in the midst of a vast social laboratory, surrounded by problems that are overwhelmingly intricate.  What is her education worth?  Nothing, if it leads to a cloistered seclusion; everything, if it brings her into vital healing touch with even one of its needs.

The spirit of Christian social service opens many doors.  There are Sunday afternoons to be spent with the shy pupils of the High Caste Girls’ Schools at the opposite end of town.  In the outcaste village beside the rice fields we may find the other end of the social scale—­twenty or thirty little barbarians whose opening exercises must start off with a compulsory bath at the well.

Vacation weeks at home are bristling with opportunity—­the woman next door whose forgotten art of reading may be revived; the bride in the next street who longs to learn crochet work; the little troop of neighbor children who crowd the house to learn the haunting strains of a Christian lyric.  A cholera epidemic breaks out, and, instead of blind fear of a demon-goddess to be placated, there is practical knowledge as to methods of guarding food and drinking water.  The baby of the house is ill and, instead of exorcisms and branding with hot irons, there is a visit to the nearest hospital and enough knowledge of hygienic laws to follow out the doctor’s directions.

Rebecca teaches a class of small boys in the outcaste Sunday school that gives preliminary baths.  On this particular Sunday, however, she starts out armed not with the picture roll and lyric book, but with a motley collection of soap and clean rags, cotton swabs and iodine and ointment.

“Amma,” says Rebecca, “in the little thatched house, the fourth beyond the school, I saw a boy whose head is covered with sores.  May Zipporah teach my class to-day, while I go and treat the sores, as I have learned to do in school?” So Rebecca, following in the steps of Him who sent out His disciples not only to preach but also to heal, attacks one of the little strongholds of dirt and disease and carries it by storm.  No young surgeon after his first successful major operation was ever prouder than Rebecca when the next Sunday evening she rushes into the bungalow, eyes shining, to report her cure complete.