. Woman and her Saviour in Persia. t our lower sash be filled by twolarge panes in modern style, and these are represented bytwo courts surrounded by pavements, and shaded by largesycamore trees. In the engraving just referred to, thespectator stands in one of these courts, looking over a lowwall into the other. For the top of the lower sash, we haveanother building, extending across the premises. The lefthalf of this appearing on page 131, behind the trees, and onthe opposite page represented without them, was the firsthome of Dr. Perkins, and is now the Female Seminary;but repeated additions
. Woman and her Saviour in Persia. t our lower sash be filled by twolarge panes in modern style, and these are represented bytwo courts surrounded by pavements, and shaded by largesycamore trees. In the engraving just referred to, thespectator stands in one of these courts, looking over a lowwall into the other. For the top of the lower sash, we haveanother building, extending across the premises. The lefthalf of this appearing on page 131, behind the trees, and onthe opposite page represented without them, was the firsthome of Dr. Perkins, and is now the Female Seminary;but repeated additions and modifications have been re-quired to transform a building, originally erected for api-ivate residence, into a structure suitable for such aschool. Miss Fiske first taught in one room of a building to theright, which does not appear in the engraving, though apart of it is seen on page 131; then, as the school grewlarger, another room was added, and when those quartersbecame too strait, this building was remodelled for its If i I / An m I ?# THE SCENE OF THE NARRATIVE. 39 As we shall have a good deal to do with the Seminaryin these pages, let us become familiar with its home. Be-tween the central door and the one on the left, those threewindows belong to a large room once used as a chapel,but since then as a guest room for the accommodationof the women whom we shall see coming here to learn ofJesus. In this room, Nestorian converts first partook ofthe Lords supper with the missionaries. The left of thethree windows directly over these, with the rose-bush init, belongs to Miss Fiskes private room, and the othertwo to her sitting room. This the pupils have named The Bethel, and it is so connected that the teacher canstep into recitation room, dining room, or kitchen, as occa-sion requires. The last named apartment is on the rearof the building. The largest recitation room, by a curiousnecessity, is in the form of a carpenters wooden square,with the teachers desk in the a
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