Many a Moslem eye was on those girls, as the results of a
religious education appeared in their manners, their dress, and
personal beauty. In one instance, an officer of government attempted
to take one of them to his harem, but God thwarted his purpose
through the interference of the English consul. Similar dangers
threatened from other sources, and eternity alone will reveal the
burden of care and watchfulness they involved. If only one pupil had
been led astray, what a hopeless loss of confidence would have
followed among the people! In the early years of the institution,
when parents could hardly be persuaded to trust their daughters out
of their sight for a single night, it might have broken up the whole
enterprise; but in this matter, also, God showed himself the hearer
of prayer, and not one danger of the kind was ever allowed to be
more than an occasion for renewed intercession, and more confiding
dependence on his gracious care. Sometimes, in vacation, it seemed
strange to its guardians that they had no longer a fold to protect,
and could retire to rest free from that anxious solicitude that
sometimes drove sleep from their eyes.
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