. Life and light for woman. She was doing good work in the school at Arabkir—such good work that they wanted her for the principal of the to this time the Bible had not been permitted in that school. Whenthey asked her to become the principal she said, I will take the prin-cipalship of this school if you will permit me to introduce Bible committee was not willing to grant that permission at sheinsisted. They wanted her for the principal and at last gave in saying. igi4\ My Second Tour in Turkey 357 If you will be the principal of this school you can teach the Bi
. Life and light for woman. She was doing good work in the school at Arabkir—such good work that they wanted her for the principal of the to this time the Bible had not been permitted in that school. Whenthey asked her to become the principal she said, I will take the prin-cipalship of this school if you will permit me to introduce Bible committee was not willing to grant that permission at sheinsisted. They wanted her for the principal and at last gave in saying. igi4\ My Second Tour in Turkey 357 If you will be the principal of this school you can teach the Bible or anyother subject you wish. She became the principal, introduced theBible and now all three girls are teaching it. It certainly is encouragingto us to have our girls stand up for their principles. The girls came tocall on me after school and we had a good time talking over theirEuphrates College days. They were glad to hear about their friends andteachers at Harpoot and I was glad to be able to tell them. At Arabkir. A VILLAGE KHAN, HARPOOT FIELD as at every other place we had many callers and many were the requestsfor help. We need a teacher or We need another teacher. Wehave no pastor, when will one be ready? were pleas made at nearlyevery place except Arabkir. It did make me feel sad to see the great needknowing all too well the dearth of workers. The Gregorian so-calledkindergarten at Arabkir is not a kindergarten at all. The Protestantkindergarten is better but not at all well equipped. o , 358 Life and Light [Aug-us^ Agn is a very interesting and picturesque city built upon the side of ahill. The streets are well made but hard traveling, for they are all upand down. There are but three straight streets in the city and these runthe length of the city parallel with each other. The houses are pictur-esque too, peeping as they do out from the trees. Both Arabkir and Agnhave plenty of trees and water, quite a contrast to barren Harpoot. Butneither have the view we have
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