SCHOLARS.--POSITION OF UNMARRIED MISSIONARY LADIES.--BOOKS.

We have seen that among the Nestorians it was counted a disgrace for
a female to learn to read; and even now, in the districts remote
from missionary influence, a woman who reads, and especially one who
writes, is an object of public odium, if not of persecution. How,
then, could the Nestorians be induced to send their daughters to
schools? What overcame this strong national prejudice? These
questions open a delightful chapter in divine providence, showing
how wonderfully God adapts means to ends, even on opposite sides of
the globe.

A Christian gentleman in the State of New York, on the death of his
wife's sister, adopted into his own family her infant child. She was
trained to the exercise of a practical Christian benevolence, and
her superior mind was improved by an education remarkably thorough.
In the classics and mathematics she exhibited uncommon aptitude, and
made unusual attainments; so that it was truly said of her, "Perhaps
no female missionary ever left our country with a mind so well
disciplined as Mrs. Judith S. Grant." She sailed for Persia, July
11, 1835; and there she displayed rare ability in acquiring the
language of the people. The Turkish she soon spoke familiarly. In a
short time she read the ancient Syriac, and acquired the spoken
language with at least equal facility. Previous even to these
acquisitions, she taught Mar Yohanan and others English; and as they
noticed the ease with which she turned to her Greek Testament,
whenever ours seemed to differ from the ancient Syriac, they
regarded her with feelings in which it would be hard to say whether
wonder, love, or reverence was the strongest. Some might have cried
out, when her fine intellect and rare acquirements were devoted to