meetings with women, in which the pupils rendered much assistance.
It also secured the influence of the parents in favor of what was
for the good of their daughters, and made them interested in the
school. During Miss Fiske's entire residence in Persia, fathers
rarely disregarded her wishes concerning their daughters in her
school.

The only time that the teachers were ever reviled by a Nestorian
father was in the case of a village priest. He came one day to the
Seminary to see his daughter, and because she did not appear at
once,--she was engaged at the moment,--he cursed and swore, in a
great passion, and when she did come, carried her home. No notice
was taken of it, and no effort made to get her back; but three years
after, the first indications of his interest in religion were deep
contrition for his conduct on that occasion, and a letter full of
grief for such treatment of those who had come so far to tell him
and his of Jesus. He at once sent his daughter back, and three weeks
after she too came to the Saviour, and even begged, as a favor, to
have the care of the rooms of the teachers her father had reviled.
Since then, the priest has written no less than three letters, as he
says, to be sure that so great wickedness was really pardoned, it
seemed to him so unpardonable.

The circumstances of the Seminary required a domestic department. It
was difficult, in Persia, to have girls only ten years old take
charge of household affairs; yet a beginning was made; but how much
labor of love and patience of hope it involved cannot be told to
those who have not tried it. At first, their one hour of work each
day was more of a hinderance than a help; but gradually, through
watchfulness and much effort, they were brought to do the whole