the missionary work, "Why is this waste of the ointment made?" But
had her friends searched the round world for a sphere of greatest
usefulness, they could not have selected one where her rare gifts
would have accomplished so much; and when such a woman manifested
deep solicitude for the education of her sex, ancient prejudice fell
before her. She taught her own domestics to read. She sedulously
cultivated the acquaintance of both Christian and Mohammedan women;
nor did she rest till she had opened a school for girls in what is
now Mr. Coan's barn. Such was her zeal, that when her health would
not allow her to go there, she taught the pupils in her own
apartment. She commenced with only four scholars, but at the same
time prepared the maps for Parley's Geography in modern Syriac, and
the old map of Oroomiah, so familiar to the readers of the
Missionary Herald, was her handiwork. Nor was her usefulness
confined to her school room. Hers was the privilege of creating such
a public sentiment in favor of the education of woman, that her
successors have found the gates wide open before them, and often
wondered at the extent and permanence of the influence she acquired.
There is no one topic of which Miss Fiske has spoken to the writer
so frequently, and with such enthusiasm, as the great work that Mrs.
Grant accomplished for woman in Persia, during her short missionary
life. She was the laborious and self-denying pioneer in female
education, and every year thus far has brought to light new evidence
of her extensive usefulness. It was no empty compliment, when the
venerable Mar Elias said, "We will bury her in our church, where
none but very holy men are laid. As she has done so much for us, we
want the privilege of digging her grave with our own hands."

Miss Fiske writes, shortly after her arrival, "The first Syriac word
I learned was 'daughter;' and as I can now use the verb 'to give,' I