Life and light for woman (1873) (14595882427)

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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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een preparedby the girls for use in Sunday-school concerts, have been very nicely done.Especial attention is paid to singing, and all the usual English branches aretaught, their compositions showing a good deal of thought. Much goodwork has been done by those who have taught in their heathen kraals and onmission stations, and one bright Christian girl, Yona, became a mission-ary to inland tribes. The influence of such a life, laid down for the Master,will never be lost. One of the missionaries writes : We have made a point of speaking tothe heathen girls we have seen, asking them if they did not want to learn toread, and if they had not desires for something better than a heathen life.^This has probably had something to do with the fact that within a fewmonths seventeen girls have presented themselves at our door with the an-nouncement that they wanted to learn. All but two of these were run-aways. As they had no clothing except beads and blankets, my first object 114 LIFE AND IJGIIT.
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UMZUMBE HOME, IN NATAL. 115 was to get them into decent attire. So wlien a girl came I sent her at onceto the river for a bath, and when she came back I generally had some oldgarment of my own for her to put on. In most instances an angry fathersoon appeared upon the scene, demanding his daughter. If he could per-suade her to go back with him he might do so, but we would not allow himto come into the house and forcibly take her with him. Some of the girlsyielded to the persuasion of their friends, and returned home. Others re-mained. It seems to us that there is no better way of helping them than byreceiving and assisting such as have the courage to come to us. We should like to see a Girls Home at every mission station, with accom-modations for all who desire to attend. Two new teachers, Miss Alice F. Stillson and Miss Agnes M. Bigelow, whose por-traits we give, went to the Umzumbe Home, arriving a little over a year ago, and haveentered heartily into the school work. Miss Stillson w