. Life and light for woman. f the journey. It is a great pity that the mission possesses no such cart andmules of its own for the ever-recurring journeys to and fro from course, two mules would not be sufficient for the whole journey. TheDutchman who drove me from Melsetter changed his team for a fresh onewhen we passed his farm, so I made a very quick journey. The last partof the road was even worse than that over which we had traveled ; and itwas with a heart full of thankfulness to God that on Wednesday afternoonI arrived without mishap or delay at Mount Silinda, where the kind, h
. Life and light for woman. f the journey. It is a great pity that the mission possesses no such cart andmules of its own for the ever-recurring journeys to and fro from course, two mules would not be sufficient for the whole journey. TheDutchman who drove me from Melsetter changed his team for a fresh onewhen we passed his farm, so I made a very quick journey. The last partof the road was even worse than that over which we had traveled ; and itwas with a heart full of thankfulness to God that on Wednesday afternoonI arrived without mishap or delay at Mount Silinda, where the kind, heartywelcome which I received made me forget all about the jolts and jars andheat of the way. I spent the first few days with Mr. and Mrs. King, asmy rooms are not ready for me. It seemed good to see all the old friendsagain—the missionaries, and school girls and boys and other native girls from the boarding department all came up in a group andsang a pretty song of welcome in Zulu to Nkosazana as they call AT HOME IN MT. SILINDA Many of my old girls are still here, and there are some new faces which Ihave not seen before. I hope you will continue to be interested in thesegirls, who are so much in need of all the help that we can give them. Itis sad to remember that there is, as yet, no home for the girls at Chikore,except in so far as Mrs. Fuller and Mrs. Wilson can keep a few in theirhouses. 400 Life and Light \_September A WLLCOML TO A MISSIONARY BY EFFIE PRICE GLADDING Mrs. Thomas S. Gladding, now of Montclair, N. J., was well known before hermarriage as Miss EiKe Price, one of the student secretaries of the Y. W. C. and Mrs. Gladding have recently returned from a two years visit to themission field and Mrs. Gladding has kindly written for Life and Light thisaccount of her visit to the Uduvil Girls School. She is now chairman of theForeign Missionary Committee of the National Board of the Young WomansChristian Association. Should we give an extra day
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