taken root among them.

Native pastors came into being at Tahiti simply because the French
drove off the missionaries. They were not ordained before, but at
once proved themselves equal to the work that Providence assigned
them; and after twenty years of French misrule, in spite of Popery
on the one hand and brandy and vice on the other, there are now more
church members under these native pastors than ever before.

Twenty years ago the European shepherds were driven from Madagascar,
and a few lambs left in the midst of wolves; but God raised up
native pastors, and, instead of tens of Christians under Europeans,
there are now hundreds, yea, thousands, under these natives.[1]
Those missionaries are wise who aim constantly at results like
these; and it is in such a spirit that work has been done among the
women of Persia.
[Footnote: Rev. Dr. Tidman, secretary of the London Missionary
Society, in "Conference of Missions at Liverpool," 1860, p. 225.]




CHAPTER V.


BEGINNINGS.

MRS. GRANT.--EARLY LIFE AND LABORS.--GREAT INFLUENCE.--HER SCHOOL.--
HER PUPILS.--CHANGED INTO BOARDING SCHOOL.--GETTING PUPILS.--CARE OF
THEM.--DIFFICULTIES FROM POVERTY OF PEOPLE.--PAYING FOR FOOD OF