ty."

The inmates of the Training-school are not deaconesses alone. The school
was started to prepare workers for the foreign field, but the crying
need of the vast metropolis turned attention to the home field. The
Church of England Zenana Society sends its candidates to Mrs.
Pennefather for training, and she is glad to accept them, believing that
a variety of companionship is needed by those who, in zeal for their
personal work, might lose the broad sympathy for all kinds of Christian
labor, which is an invaluable cultivation for wise and useful laborers.

The several classes who pass through the course of training may be
designated as follows:

a.) Those who pass on to the deaconess house.

b.) Candidates for (1) the Church of England Zenana Society; (2) the
Church Missionary Society.

c.) Those who receive medical training for working among the women and
children of India.

d.) Those who are as yet unconnected with any society.

e.) When vacancies occur some few are received who merely return to home
or parish work, but who are greatly benefitted by training and
experience.

"The general routine of life seems to be as follows: Prayers at eight
o'clock, then breakfast, followed by a certain amount of domestic duty
which falls to the lot of each. For it is not forgotten that these years
of training are not for the sake of home life, but as preparation for
the self-denials of missionary life. Speaking broadly, the mornings seem
to be chiefly devoted to classes; afternoons to out of door and district
work; and thus theory and practice pleasantly relieve and support each
other."

There are regular Bible-classes held by different clergymen, and once a
fortnight there are lectures on the history of missionary work. There
are classes in Hindustani, drawing, and singing, and for those whose
education is defective, elementary classes in arithmetic, geometry, and
short-hand. The probationers are also given training in the duties of
the store-room, and the order and method that they are taught in caring
for the minutest details must certainly form valuable habits in all
those who have any desire to profit by the instruction they receive.

For those who are destined for medical work among the women of India
there is a special course of medical training, both theoretical and
practical.

The age requirement is not so strictly maintained at Mildmay as at many
other deaconess houses, but, as a rule, ladies from about t