. "God first" : or, Hester Needham's work in Sumatra : her letters and diaries . itting at one end of the verandah forthe last two hours, while I have been writing at the am also learning the Commandments and LuthersCatechism in Batta, and there is plenty to do. Dec. 17.—Yesterday it rained all day, and Mr. Johannsenasked if I could seefive women underumbrellas in therice fields. I said, No, believing Isaw only a smallvillage, when lo,the village beganto move ! I thinkthese umbrellas are made of palm-leaves. Every day, about noon, the children, all boys, come outfrom school, and assemb
. "God first" : or, Hester Needham's work in Sumatra : her letters and diaries . itting at one end of the verandah forthe last two hours, while I have been writing at the am also learning the Commandments and LuthersCatechism in Batta, and there is plenty to do. Dec. 17.—Yesterday it rained all day, and Mr. Johannsenasked if I could seefive women underumbrellas in therice fields. I said, No, believing Isaw only a smallvillage, when lo,the village beganto move ! I thinkthese umbrellas are made of palm-leaves. Every day, about noon, the children, all boys, come outfrom school, and assemble before the front gallery to say Tabe, which is Good-day. There are aboutseventy or eighty; andthey file ofi, ten at atime, in marching order. The native huts are insight of this window, likethis. Dec. 21.—Anna is ourlittle brown servant,about ten years old, whose sleeping-place is a mat on the floor,and who eats her rice on the floor while we have oursupper. Two women come here four mornings a week to learnto read, and yesterday, after Mrs. Johannsen had prayed and c 2. 36 HESTER NEEDHAM AND HER WORK sung with them, she left them to me ; so there I was againwith a class, two women and their three children! Sunday, Dec. 29, 1889.—I am very busy from morningto night, chietly in learning Batta. Mr. Johannsen isextremely anxious that I should get on with it fast, andpours out upon me unlimited patience and pains. Theother morning he shut me up in the lumber-room behindthe church with five of the students, to teach them topaint a text like the one I had on board ship. I chosea simpler, shorter one to begin with, and they all did itfirst on their slates— Whosoever abideth in Him sinnethnot (i John iii. 6). This must have taken more than anhour; then I dismissed them with the present of a pieceof paper each. In the afternoon we met again, and inthe meantime they had drawn it out in pencil. Thenthe painting began, and I had only five brushes of verydifferent sizes ; but we m
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