Life and light for woman . upof a system of fifteen initials and thirty-three finals. Each word has thieeelements—an initial sound, a final sound, and a tone. The system of initials,finals, and tones, constitute the alphabet of the language. My sister hasbeen teaching the Romanized colloquial in the womans school for severalyears, and with very few exceptions the pupils have all learned to read andwrite. The young women learn it without difficulty. As in Foochow wehave the Bible in colloquial character, the missionaries at first thought thatwould meet the need of the laboring class. But experi
Life and light for woman . upof a system of fifteen initials and thirty-three finals. Each word has thieeelements—an initial sound, a final sound, and a tone. The system of initials,finals, and tones, constitute the alphabet of the language. My sister hasbeen teaching the Romanized colloquial in the womans school for severalyears, and with very few exceptions the pupils have all learned to read andwrite. The young women learn it without difficulty. As in Foochow wehave the Bible in colloquial character, the missionaries at first thought thatwould meet the need of the laboring class. But experience has proved thatmany cannot afford to go to school long enough to gain sufficient knowledgeeven of the colloquial character to enable them to read easily, since theymust have a teacher to tell them the name of each character. The Roman-ized can be learned with much less effort, and we hope it may be a meansof bringing a knowledge of the Bible to thousands who would not learn toread it any other way. Kate C. FROM THE DIARY OF GAIUS, THE CORINTHIAN. The following ingenious composition was sent us as a specimen of those written bjthe girls in our Smyrna Boarding School:— The Apostle Paul, of whom I had heard so much, especially as havinggreat success in spreading in all cities a new religion, and who was lately inAthens, at last arrived in Corinth. Here, also, he exerted his utmost efforts,finding Jews of his own nation, many in number at this time having beenexpelled from Rome at the command of the Emperor Claudius. He livedwith some Jews who had the same trade ; with them he lived, and workedat night, so as to preach by day. When Crispus, the chief ruler of thesynagogue, believed in God through the influence of that man, I, being hisintimate friend, was astonished to see how he was changed,—he and all hisfamily together. It affected me so much that I, also, accepted the newreligion, and from that day devoted myself to the Lord. As the Christi
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