Each
has a prayer meeting, remembering the absent ones, also the Female
Seminaries in Constantinople, South Hadley (Mass.), and Oxford
(Ohio). All retire from these precious meetings to their "half
hour," as they call it, and before nine o'clock all is quiet, unless
it be the voice of some one still pleading with her God.
The first bell, Sabbath morning, is at half past five, when all rise
and dress for the day. Morning prayers are at half past six; then
comes breakfast, and, our few morning duties being done, the girls
retire to study their Sabbath school lessons, and sometimes ask to
meet together for prayer. At half past nine, we attend Syriac
service in the chapel. The Sabbath school follows that, numbering
now about two hundred pupils. About two thirds of our scholars are
teachers in it, and it is a good preparation for teaching in their
homes. Those who do not teach form a class. We then go home to
lunch, flavored with pleasant remembrances and familiar explanations
of the morning service. The afternoon service commences at two
o'clock, and our Bible lessons an hour before supper, though some
are called earlier, to help us teach the women who come in for
instruction.
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