a school for the widows and orphans, which I accepted thankfully.  We opened the school with five children and seven women, and the work, by God’s help has prospered, so that now, instead of one school, there are twenty-two schools.  Until now I continue teaching in the Institution, and had I known that nearly all my life would be spent in teaching, I should have tried to gain more when I was a child.  I can forget father and mother, but can never forget those who taught me, especially about religion.  Although some of them are dead, yet still they live by their Christian example, which they have left behind.  My whole life will be full of gratitude to those dear Christian friends, and I pray that God himself may reward them a hundred fold.

Yours respectfully,

Sada Barakat.

In the year 1851 the Missionary Sewing Society of the Beirut Female Seminary heard of the interesting state of things in Aintab, and that the women there were anxious to learn to read.  The missionaries in Aintab hired an old man to go around from house to house to teach the women to read in their homes, but the women were so eager to learn that the old man was unable to meet the demand.  So children were employed to assist.  The plan worked admirably, and in 1851, eighty women received instruction and became able to read God’s Word.  The Arab girls in Mrs. De Forest’s school were called together, and it was proposed that they sew and embroider and send the proceeds of their work to pay the little girl teachers in Aintab.  There were present, Ferha, (joy,) Sara, Saada Sabunjy, Miriam, Khushfeh, Khurma, Mirta, (Martha) Feifun, Katrina, Hada, Sada el Haleby, Esteer, Helloon, Fetny, Akabir, Hamdy, and Liza.  The needles were briskly plied, and in due time, two hundred and fifty piastres were collected and forwarded to Aintab.  Mrs. Schneider wrote back thanking the “dear Arab girls.”  The habits of benevolence thus acquired have continued with the most of these girls until now.  The greater part of them are now church-members and the heads of families.

The following letter written by Mrs. De Forest in Feb. 1852, gives some account of Lulu Araman.

Beirut, Syria, February, 1852.

     My Dear young friends in Thetford: 

The quilt you sent came safely, and I thank you much for all the care and trouble you have taken to make and quilt it for me.  I at first thought of keeping it for myself, but then it occurred to me that perhaps it might please you better and interest you more if I gave it to Lulu, one of my girls, who is to be married some time this year to Mr. Michaiel Araman, one of the teachers in the Abeih Seminary.  You will thus have the pleasure of feeling that you have in one sense done something for the school, as she is an assistant pupil, or pupil teacher.  She has been with me now for about eight years, and seems almost like my own daughter.  Perhaps you will be interested in knowing something of