But the current having once commenced to
flow in the new channel, such inducements became more a hinderance
than a help, and, in the spring of 1844, Miss Fiske told her
scholars that no more money would be paid for their bread; and
though some of the mission feared it would be necessary to resume
the practice, instead of that it was soon dropped in the other
Seminary also.
But the special difficulty growing out of the condition of woman in
a Mohammedan country demands our notice. Some may suppose that
because Miss Fiske and Miss Rice have succeeded so well, an
unmarried lady from this country has nothing to do but to go there
and work like any one else. This is not true; such a one cannot live
by herself: her home must be in some missionary family. She cannot
go out alone, either inside or outside of the city. In many things
she needs to be shielded from annoyances here unknown. And God
provided all that the teachers of the Seminary needed of such help;
first, in the kind family of Mr. Stocking, and, after his death, in
the pleasant household of Mr. Breath. Indeed, not one of all the
missionary circle ever stood in need of such a hint as Paul gave the
church at Rome concerning the deaconess of Cenchrea.
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