that God has told you the same thing." Many a graduate might say,
with another, "I thank you for your instructions, and as I look on
the trials of ungodly families, every drop of my blood thanks you."




CHAPTER II.


MARBEESHOO.

VISIT THERE.--NATIVE ACCOMMODATIONS.--HOSPITALITY OF SENUM.--
MOHAMMEDAN WOMEN.

The following account of Miss Fiske's visit to Marbeeshoo, in
November, 1847, presents a vivid picture of things as they were, and
the Christian thoughtfulness of one who had learned a more excellent
way:--

"As we sat at dinner a few days since, Mr. Stocking proposed that I
spend the Sabbath with him at Marbeeshoo. I said at once, 'I cannot
leave my school.' But he forthwith called Sanum, Sarah, and Moressa,
my oldest girls, and asked them if they did not love souls in
Marbeeshoo well enough to take good care of school, and let me be
absent till Tuesday. They were delighted to think of my going where
no missionary lady had ever been, and said, 'We will do all we can
for the girls, and we will pray for you, if you will only go and try
to do those poor women good.' It was hardly two o'clock before we
were on horseback. Marbeeshoo is about fifty miles from us, and in