The Bulgaria mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church . h, and covers about an acre of is neatly walled on all sides. The buildings are crowdedCrowded to the limit of capacity. One is devoted to school and dormi-Buildings tory rooms, with kitchen, dining-room, and two class-rooms onthe basement floor, which is partly underground. The secondbuilding provides a shelter for the two missionaries, four of the Bul-garian teachers, the man-servant and the cook. Several outbuildingsfor laundry purposes comjalete the plant. Domestic work is re-quired of every boarding-school pupil. The girls a
The Bulgaria mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church . h, and covers about an acre of is neatly walled on all sides. The buildings are crowdedCrowded to the limit of capacity. One is devoted to school and dormi-Buildings tory rooms, with kitchen, dining-room, and two class-rooms onthe basement floor, which is partly underground. The secondbuilding provides a shelter for the two missionaries, four of the Bul-garian teachers, the man-servant and the cook. Several outbuildingsfor laundry purposes comjalete the plant. Domestic work is re-quired of every boarding-school pupil. The girls are divided intoseveral groups, according to the amount of each kind of Avork to bedone, and the work of each group is changed each month. The personnel of the school varies from year to year as classes graduate and new girls take their places. Usually a large proportion come from orthodox homes. Although Bulgarian homes The School forbid pupils to change their religion while attending Personnel school, these girls often become so completely transformed. Misses Blackburn and Davis with the Graduating Class of 1905,Lovetch Girls School 26 under tlie influence of the religions life of the school that they vol-untarily take a stand for Christ, although they are not i:)ermitted tounite with the Protestant Church. Some of these girls from orthodox homes become, as we helieve, truly converted and possess a living faith in the truths of (iod, and when they die, what Wesley said of his people may Some Are Truly be said of them, that *they die well. Those of the Converted girls who have completed the course of study and have gone out from this school, are scattered far and wide, for thev come from all parts of the country and from different social ranks. Some have married preachers in the Mission; others are teachers; and the majority of those who have settled in homes of their own are demonstrating to the nation the value of the training received at ou]- school. There is no discriminati
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