often ask parents to give me their daughters. Some think that I
cannot secure boarding scholars, but Mrs. Grant got day scholars;
and when I hear men, women, and children say, 'How she loved us!' I
want to love them too. I mean to devote at least five years to the
work of trying to gather girls into a boarding school, as Mrs. Grant
desired to do. She has gone to her rest. I wonder that I am allowed
to take her place." And again: "I am usually in school till three
P.M., and then I go out among the poor mothers till tea time. They
often say to me, 'Mrs. Grant did just as you do.' Her short life was
a precious offering. I feel each day more and more that I have
entered into the labors of a faithful servant of Christ."

Among the pupils of Mrs. Grant was Selby, of Oroomiah, who was
hopefully converted while teaching some day scholars connected with
the Seminary, in 1845. Raheel, (Rachel,) the wife of Siyad, the
tailor mentioned in the Memoir of Mr. Stoddard, was another. So were
Sanum, the wife of Joseph; Meressa, the wife of Yakob; and Sarah,
the daughter of Priest Abraham, and wife of Oshana, of whom we shall
hear more hereafter.

After the death of Mrs. Grant, January 14, 1839, the school was
continued under the charge of Mr. Holladay, who employed native
teachers to assist him, the ladies of the mission cooperating as
they could. It then passed into the hands of Dr. Wright, who had the
care of it when Miss Fiske arrived in Oroomiah, June 14, 1843.
During all this time it was only a day school, and contact with vice
in the homes of the pupils greatly hindered its usefulness. It was
for this reason that Miss Fiske was exceedingly anxious to make it a
boarding school, so as to retain the pupils continuously under good
influences. But would they be allowed to spend the night on the