Life and light for woman . work Is being done. To the classof 1898 belonged our first Jewess graduate. For some years there has beena large and active company of Kings Daughters in school. The former pupils, even though far awav, still retain their membership,and are kept in touch with the Society and its work through letters. Thisband of workers is well known in Smyrna, and applications for helppour In upon them from all sides, so that the visiting committee for each i-dg9\ MISSION WORK IN SMYRNA. month is kept busy, as no aid is given in any direction till tlie needs ofthe case have been tho
Life and light for woman . work Is being done. To the classof 1898 belonged our first Jewess graduate. For some years there has beena large and active company of Kings Daughters in school. The former pupils, even though far awav, still retain their membership,and are kept in touch with the Society and its work through letters. Thisband of workers is well known in Smyrna, and applications for helppour In upon them from all sides, so that the visiting committee for each i-dg9\ MISSION WORK IN SMYRNA. month is kept busy, as no aid is given in any direction till tlie needs ofthe case have been thoroughly investigated. The help given may be cloth-ing for a poor child or its mother, medicine and daily food for the sick, ortaking tlie doctor, who freely gives his services, to see the patient, or get-tin- him or her received into the hospital, or perhaps helping in the fune-ral expenses of some person, or paying the tuition of a child in school, orproviding room-rent for some. In short, there is no act of mercy they do. MR. AND MRS. GABRIEL charge of the Sailors Rest. Mrs. Chaoushoghlou is a graduate of 1SS9 in the Boarding School. not consider it a privilege to do, if means will allow ; and if not, there isalways at least the sympathizing call, with words of comfort, directing thesufferer to the great Physician. Sometimes as many as forty families aresupplied with Christmas and Easter dinners, each basket liaving been care-fully packed with i-eference to some special need. A quotation from a letterof one of the visiting committee, written to a friend in this coimtrv, will 8 LIFE AND LJGHT. \_Janua)yy show how one girl looked upon hei privilege : So I close this report,hoping that He shall bless all our poor best, done In His Name. Whata loss ! What a loss ! At least a whole year must elapse before Ill beelected once more on this committee. I wisli I were elected for thewhole year, but I must not be selfish. If I were to make a list of thegood they make, t
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