Identifier: lifelightforwoma23woma (find matches)
Title: Life and light for woman
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Woman's Board of Missions
Subjects: Congregational churches
Publisher: (Boston : Woman's Boards of Missions
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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as wet and dirty as the streets. Up a few steps we come to a door,covered perhaps witli a sheepskin or coarse felt to keep out the cold. Theweight to swing it back being a huge block of wood, threatens to knockyou down as it rolls back. Here we are in the Protestant chapel, and herea mixed school is kept, taught, for a wonder, by one of our schoolgirls,a member of the freshman class. The ages range from four to fourteen,and it was an experiment having a girl teach such big boys ; one that hasproved a success, however. This chapel is a new one, and very fine. It is almost too high to be heatedproperly, and on each side has three high, barred windows, now papered tokeep out the cold. To be suie the walls have not yet received a white coat,and the straw matting and the cushions look as though several generationshad used them (these are square, flat cushions stuffed with rags or wool, tosit on a la Turk), but the chapel is fine for this country, and we wont find (273) 274 LIFE AND LIGHT.
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A KOORDISH CHIEF. A YOUNG LIFE TRANSLATED. 275 fault. Some schools are held in such dark places that this seems delightful.This school is in the village of Yegheke, a place where my parents spent the-Week of Prayer laboring to fill up this chapel and establish a school. It is ahard place, and the young teacher from one of the most refined families inour field came to the work like a missionary. She came with Christs lovein her heart, determined to make the school a success. She has now fiftypupils, besides ten or twelve brides who are learning to read. A bride in avillage house is a maid of all work at home and in the field, and when one isallowed to learn to read it is a victory. Poor brides ! even nominal Protes-tants in that village quoted Scripture to prove that it was a duty as well asprivilege to beat their wives. Teachers and pupils are delighted to see us this afternoon ; and we are de-lighted to find clean hands and smooth hair, although rags are by no meanslacking. Geography

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