of prayer, and not one danger of the kind was ever allowed to be
more than an occasion for renewed intercession, and more confiding
dependence on his gracious care. Sometimes, in vacation, it seemed
strange to its guardians that they had no longer a fold to protect,
and could retire to rest free from that anxious solicitude that
sometimes drove sleep from their eyes.

It is not in the beginning of missionary life that all these things
are understood: they are learned gradually. This is wisely ordered,
that the missionary be not discouraged at the outset. Strength is
given each day to meet new trials as they come, and it would not be
leaving a truthful impression on the reader, if, at the close of
this description of what has been, it should not be recorded, to the
praise of divine grace, that a great change has taken place. There
are many to-day to whom the missionary may say, "Such were some of
you; but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified
in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." Not
only do some who stole steal no more, but many young husbands now
provide separate apartments for the bride whom they bring home, and
they need all that the word "home" expresses to describe their
mutual joy. The hour of suffering is anticipated by a considerate
affection, and that affection is so reciprocated that many hearts
safely trust in the daughters of the Female Seminary of Oroomiah.

It is not merely education that has wrought this change, but a Bible
education. Paul cared for just such converts, and left divine
teachings for the use of those who should come after him in the same
work. As a young wife said to her teacher one day, after she had
been talking with her about her new duties, "I thank you; you are
right. I am glad that you have told me what Paul says, and I think