Life and light for woman . these homes, begun under such auspices, is exceedingly at-tractive. If it could only be followed up results might confidently be ex-pected, if not in the way of baptisms, yet in the giving up of many heathenbeliefs and piactices, and in a less hostile attitude toward Christianity; andthat is much gained. In the rural districts, also, schools bear an important part in the evangeli-zation of women as well as men. In the Marathi Mission such schools aremostly among the lower castes, and are usually mixed, there being compara-tively few girls, but year by year their numb
Life and light for woman . these homes, begun under such auspices, is exceedingly at-tractive. If it could only be followed up results might confidently be ex-pected, if not in the way of baptisms, yet in the giving up of many heathenbeliefs and piactices, and in a less hostile attitude toward Christianity; andthat is much gained. In the rural districts, also, schools bear an important part in the evangeli-zation of women as well as men. In the Marathi Mission such schools aremostly among the lower castes, and are usually mixed, there being compara-tively few girls, but year by year their number is increasing. Not only arethe girls themselves being instructed and all their ideas elevated and uplifted,but through them the women are being reached. Every girl who can readtakes her book home, to let her mother see what she can do, and its contentsare rehearsed over and over till they become familiar to the family. Thoseseries of the C. V. E. S. are little treasuries of Christian truth, and they 158 LIFE AND
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