After taking an account of the attendance, the children sung,
divided into two companies, on opposite sides of the church; and
then Mar Ellas, or some of the elders of the village, addressed the
school. Yonan closes his account of it by saying, "We have learned
in this work more than ever before the value of female education.
Among our most energetic, faithful teachers are young women who love
to sit down before little children, and the ignorant of their own
sex, and teach them the way of life."
Thursday, June 1st, 1854, was a great day in Geog Tapa. The forenoon
was devoted to the examination of a girls' school, taught by Hanee
and Nargis, graduates of the preceding year, and both belonging in
the village. As it was a feast day, a large number were present from
the neighboring hamlets. At nine o'clock the examination commenced
in the spacious church, which was crowded, the congregation
numbering about six hundred in all. The fifty pupils occupied the
middle of the church. The studies pursued were ancient and modern
Syriac, geography, arithmetic, both Scripture and secular history,
reading and spelling; and in all of them the pupils did credit both
to themselves and their teachers.
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