. The redemption of Africa; a story of civilization, with maps, statistical tables and select bibliography of the literature of African missions . m-memorate a wonderful woman as well as a marvelous mis-sionary. The concentrated enthusiasm and the charm-ing sweetness of Anne Mackenzie promoted missions tono little degree, and she laid down a work far advancedand well organized. Mary Whately, the gifted daughter of Dublins grandarchbishop, inherited extraordinary activity, energy andintelligence; received the finest training, mental, moraland religious, from her parents; and early surrenderedhe
. The redemption of Africa; a story of civilization, with maps, statistical tables and select bibliography of the literature of African missions . m-memorate a wonderful woman as well as a marvelous mis-sionary. The concentrated enthusiasm and the charm-ing sweetness of Anne Mackenzie promoted missions tono little degree, and she laid down a work far advancedand well organized. Mary Whately, the gifted daughter of Dublins grandarchbishop, inherited extraordinary activity, energy andintelligence; received the finest training, mental, moraland religious, from her parents; and early surrenderedherself to Christly service. Her Egyptian mission, be-ginning in i860 and ending only with her death in 1889,originated the present activity of the Church MissionarySociety in Cairo*. Labor in the ragged schools of Dub-lin, with teaching and visiting the Irish towns numerousItalian inhabitants, assisted her in training, however un-knowingly, for work among Egyptian boys and girls,Greeks, Jews, Kopts, Muslims and Syrians. Escortedby a Syriac Protestant matron, she went out into thehighways and byways of her Cairene home, persuaded * Chapter MARY LOUISA WHATELY OLD FRIENDS AND MODERN METHODS 595 mothers to let their girls come to learn to read and sew,and gathered nine into school. Ragged Life in Egyptforms the literary outcome of these earlier years. In1869, at the suggestion of Albert Edward, Prince ofWales, Ismail the khedive gave her a site outside of thewalls; British friends aided her to erect a spacious build-ing; and the school grew to six hundred pupils. Halfthe boys and two thirds of the girls were were taught to read and write Arabic. All learnedthe Bible and Christian teaching. The boys also re-ceived secular education, and the girls became mis-tresses of the needle. To-day through Egypt these boys,now men, hold positions of trust under the government,in mercantile houses and in railroad and telegraphoffices. After Miss Whately added the medical miss
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