. Life and light for woman . ach, and though their work is notyet quite decided on, they seem ready to go wherever they can beuseful; and we hope to send one to Marash, one to Smyrna, andthe others will, perhaps, be nearer to Constantinople. It seems tome we have reason to be pleased with the lives of most of ourgraduates. Many of them have been good, faithful are letting their light shine bright in homes, where they haveno helps and many hindrances in their Christian life. One died infaith, and another has for three years been a bed-ridden sufferer,longing to depart and be with
. Life and light for woman . ach, and though their work is notyet quite decided on, they seem ready to go wherever they can beuseful; and we hope to send one to Marash, one to Smyrna, andthe others will, perhaps, be nearer to Constantinople. It seems tome we have reason to be pleased with the lives of most of ourgraduates. Many of them have been good, faithful are letting their light shine bright in homes, where they haveno helps and many hindrances in their Christian life. One died infaith, and another has for three years been a bed-ridden sufferer,longing to depart and be with Christ. 448 LIFE AND LIGHT. We had hoped for a more strongly marked religious interestthan we have seen in the school this year; yet it has been a yearof steady growth to many of our girls, and we have been speciallypleased to see a more earnest spirit of Christian activity and readi-ness for self-sacrifice than before, and several have, we believe,been awakened to a new life during the year. ^lottttit people^ ^ LETTER FROM MISS RUBY HARDIl^G, OF AHMEDNAGAR, INDIA. iHALL I tell you about a little society theyounger girls of the school have formed amongthemselves this term ? It began something in this way. The pastorsdaughter, with three other little girls, decidedto go by themselves each day to pray. Theychose as their meeting-place the back verandaof a small house which stands unoccupied inone corner of our compound. For a time noone knew anything about their going there; butafter a few weeks, when a teacher found outabout it, she said, Why do you not form a society among thelittle girls, and in this way do more good? They liked the idea,and soon about fifteen girls met together each morning, at recess,on the back veranda. All this time it had been kept so very quiet, just among them-selves, that we knew nothing about it. We only noticed that thelittle girls, a certain number of them, went very regularly in thedirection of that veranda. One day I said to Miss Fai
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