Rambles in sunny Spain . ational work like that in which Mr. and Mrs. Gulickare engaged. For missionary work is educational, let it be calledwhat it may. In its very essence it is helpful, whether it proceedalong denominational lines or not. The work here undertaken iseducational in its best and highest sense, inasmuch as it operatesmainly among the poor and neglected. We wish our readers couldhave looked in at the party gathered within the walls of the school onthe evening of our arrival. They would have seen such a gathering ofbeautiful, bright-eyed children as would have warmed a heart of s
Rambles in sunny Spain . ational work like that in which Mr. and Mrs. Gulickare engaged. For missionary work is educational, let it be calledwhat it may. In its very essence it is helpful, whether it proceedalong denominational lines or not. The work here undertaken iseducational in its best and highest sense, inasmuch as it operatesmainly among the poor and neglected. We wish our readers couldhave looked in at the party gathered within the walls of the school onthe evening of our arrival. They would have seen such a gathering ofbeautiful, bright-eyed children as would have warmed a heart of sole-leather. We dont know how many, but a large roomful were assem-bled. The games they played, the poetry they recited, the songs theysung, were all Spanish, but the music and mirth were in a language 44 RAMBLES IN SUNNY SPAIN. universal, and alike infectious. A more delightful and thoroughlyheart-warming entertainment we never attended. The next day wehad opportunity to look in at the school in session, and were struck. NATIVES. with admiration at the proficiency of the pupils, even in studies faradvanced. Some of the girls gave us a dialogue in English, and theeffect of this rough tongue of ours being caressed by lips accustomedto the liquid and sonorous Spanish was most delicious. Their cal- BEYOND THE PYRENEES. 45 isthenic exercises were complicated (to an inexperienced eye) andperfect; limbs and bodies in harmony to music, and in rhythmicmotion. Sitting as spectators of these exercises, with those threescorehappy children before us, the embodiment of health and happiness,with the intellectual sunlight dancing in their eyes, and the eagernessfor knowledge manifested in their work, we allowed ourselves to specu-late upon the possible future of Spain, with a thousand such influencesas these working upon her masses. The people of Spain are anoble people; they have in them the material for great achievements;they are frank and sympathetic. They are not, like too many ofour Nor
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