to come, that she was permitted to come back.

We hope that she became truly pious six years ago, in 1846, as her
life evinces that she is striving to live according to the precepts
of the gospel. She has never dared to go home again, although it
has been a great trial for her to stay away, because she knew that
she 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