should be obliged to remain there, and to conform to the idolatrous rites of the Greek Church.  She has assisted us in the School for nearly five years, besides teaching a day school at various times, before the Boarding School was commenced, and we shall feel very sorry to part with her.  Still we hope that she will yet be useful to her countrywomen, and furnish them an example of a happy Christian home, of which there are so few at present in this country.

Our school has now nineteen pupils, most of whom are promising.  Some we hope are true Christians.  The girls opened their box the other day, and found that they had a little more than last year from their earnings.  Some friends added a little, and they have now forty dollars.  One half they send to China, and the other half give to the Church here.

The hope expressed by Mrs. De Forest in 1852, with regard to the future usefulness of Lulu, has not been disappointed.  Her family is a model Christian family, the home of piety and affection, the centre of a pure and hallowed influence.  Her eldest daughter Katie, named from Mrs. De Forest, is now a teacher in the Beirut Female Seminary in which her father has been the principal instructor in the Bible and in the higher Arabic branches for ten years.  For years this institution was carried on in Lulu’s house, and she was the Matron while Rufka was the Preceptress, and its very existence is owing to the patient and faithful labors of those two Christian Syrian women.  If any one who reads these lines should doubt the utility of labors for the girls and women of the Arab race, let him visit first the squalid, disorderly, cheerless and Christless homes of the mass of the Arab villagers of Syria, and then enter the cheerful, tidy, well ordered home of Mr. and Mrs. Araman, when the family are at morning prayers, listen to the voice of prayer and praise and the reading of God’s word.  Instead of the father sitting gloomily alone at his morning meal, and the mother and children waiting till their lord is through and then eating by themselves in the usual Arab way, he would see the whole family seated together in a Christian, homelike manner, the Divine blessing asked, and the meal conducted with propriety and decorum.  After breakfast the father and Katie go to the Seminary to give their morning lessons, Henry (named for Dr. De Forest) sets out for the College, in which he is a Sophomore, and the younger children go to their various schools.  Lulu’s place at church is rarely vacant, and since that “relic of barbarism” the curtain which separated the men from the women has been removed from the building, the whole family, father, mother, and children sit together and join in the worship of God.  Her brother and relatives from “Wady” are on the most affectionate terms with her, and her elder sister is in the domestic department of the Beirut Female Seminary.