When my soul is faint
and thirsty, ’neath the shadow of His
wing
There is cool and pleasant
shelter, and a fresh and crystal
spring;
And my Saviour rests
beside me, as we hold communion
sweet:
If I tried, I could
not utter what He says when thus we meet.
Only this I know:
I tell Him all my doubts, my griefs and
fears;
Oh, how patiently He
listens! and my drooping soul He
cheers:
Do you think He ne’er
reproves me? What a false friend He
would be,
If He never, never told
me of the sins which He must see.
Would you like to know
the sweetness of the secret of the
Lord?
Go and hide beneath
His shadow: this shall then be your
reward;
And whene’er you
leave the silence of that happy meeting
place,
You must mind and bear
the image of the Master in your face.
[Illustration: SHELOMITH VINCENT]
LAL BAGH ALUMNAE RECORDS SHOW THE FOLLOWING:
The first Kindergarten in India.
The first college in India with full staff of women and residence accommodation.
The first Arya Samaj B.A. graduate.
The F.Sc. graduate who became the second woman with
the B.Sc. degree in
India.
The F.Sc. graduate who later graduated at the foremost Medical College in North India as the first Muhammadan woman doctor in India and probably in the world.
The first woman B.A. and the first Normal School graduate
from
Rajputana.
The first woman to receive her M.A. in North India.
The first Muhammadan woman to take her F.A. examination
from the Central
Provinces.
Probably the first F.A. student to take her examination in purdah.
The first Teachers Conference (held annually) in India.
The first woman’s college to offer the F.Sc. course.
The first college to have on its staff an Indian lady.
The first woman (Lilavati Singh) from the Orient to
serve on a world’s
Committee.
The first woman dentist.
The first woman agriculturist.
The first woman in India to be in charge of a Boys’ High School.
A Lal Bagh graduate organized the Home Missionary Society which has developed into an agency of great service to the neglected Anglo-Indian community scattered throughout India.
The Lal Bagh student who took an agricultural course in America and is now helping convert wastes of the Himalaya regions into fruitful valleys.
Miss Phoebe Rowe, an Anglo-Indian who was associated with Lal Bagh in Miss Thoburn’s time, was a wonderful influence in the villages of North India and carried the Christian message by her beautiful voice as well as her consecrated personality. She traveled in America, endearing India to many friends here. She is one—perhaps the most remarkable, however—of many Lal Bagh daughters who are serving as evangelists in faraway places.