lessons. The class enjoy it exceedingly, and the forty minutes spent
on it always seem too short. The other classes now come in, and all
study or recite another forty minutes. After that, a short recess in
the yard makes all fresh again. The older classes then study, while
one of the younger ones has a Bible lesson with me on the life of
Christ. Each time I go over it with them I find things which I
wonder I had not perceived before. It is delightful to hear them
express their own thoughts of our blessed Saviour. We trace his
journeyings on maps prepared by the pupils, and they study the
Scripture geography of each place. After this, one class recites
ancient Syriac to Yonan, and another, in physiology, goes out to
Miss Rice, leaving me to spend forty minutes with the older girls on
compositions. At present the topic is, "The Christ of the Old
Testament;" and I am thankful that I studied Edwards's History of
Redemption under Miss Lyon. This done, fifteen minutes remain for a
kind of general exercise, when we talk over many things; and then
the noon recess of one and a half hours allows the girls to lunch,
see friends, and recreate, till fifteen minutes before its close,
when they have a prayer meeting by themselves.
[Footnote 1: At first, only one hymn was printed on a separate
sheet; then a little hymn book of five,--as many as Luther commenced
with at the Reformation. Now the hymn book contains about two
hundred hymns, and some of the pupils can repeat them all.]

"In the afternoon, Miss Rice takes charge of the school, and I have
the time out. At present the first hour is given to writing; soon
astronomy will take its place. Recitations in geography follow till
recess, and after that singing or spelling. The last hour, I go in
and hear a lesson in Hebrews. On this Epistle we have full notes
prepared in Syriac, and we study it carefully, in connection with