If one lodges in the native
houses, there is no refuge from them, and only an entire change of
clothing affords relief when he returns to his own home; even there
the divans have to be sedulously examined after the departure of
visitors, that the plague do not spread. The writer has known
daughters of New England, ready for almost any self-denial, burst
into tears when first brought into contact with this.
At first, the teachers of the Female Seminary in Oroomiah had to
cleanse their pupils very thoroughly, and were glad thus to purify
the outside, while beseeching Christ to cleanse the heart. Each one,
on her first arrival, had to be separately cared for, lest the enemy
should recover ground from which he had already been driven with
much labor. Missionary publications do not usually tell of such
trials, but those who drew the lambs from the deep pit, loved them
all the more tenderly for having gone down into it themselves, that
thence they might bring them to Jesus. Such trials are less common
now, for it is generally understood that a degree of personal
cleanliness is an indispensable requisite for admission to the
Seminary; but such a demand, at that time, would have rendered the
commencement of the school impossible.
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