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■ C HU t ST IA K 11 tc 11A t, r>. Correspondence. » —r ft New England . Letters. NVMBER VI. S tone H al L, Oct. 2,1882. Dear Friends at Home; has a short-hand of her own devis ing and-1 hope all are more easily read than mine, for it is one of the most aggravatingthings imaginable, to work hard for an hour and not be able to read one word except as. sorry, for it has been a dismal and gra jhic pens got contrary and you very unusual month for the time of would laugh to see the way they year; there have been few clear are shaken and pounded to make days; but this morning the sun the ink do its duty; one writes * came out gloriously, shedding a faster than another, and her neigh- new luster over Stone Hall turrets bors try to catch her notes, but in and the floating lilies upon the sur doing so she loses something else face of lake Waban. A happy and seldom gets the idea she chance has made me the possessor wishes. There are those, too, who of some blue fringed gentians, write rapidly, put their hands over their notes m^iuxn....lheu-. se»-atcl> whieh lie at thismoment amen" © the folds of lace at my throat. blocks over, looking about in a way „ Miss Comans, the teacher who pre which says plainer than words, sides at our table, found them in “ You can’t see it.” We have had her ramble yesterday, and was so one lecture in Sophomore Litera kind as to divide with me. Thus ture by Miss Hodgkins, the Pro one by one the little pleasures I fessor, and have recited in room B, hoped for in New England come by divisions, to Miss Petton, on to me, and you can scarcely realize “The Ancestry of the Greeks.” how much these little things mean, Sounds easy doesn’t it, well it for along with the golden -red and wasn’t very easy for me, nor for . sweet tern, i has al- ways lured me on, till I have riiet and is not certain of what she does them on their native, rocky soil. know. I wasn’t called on, how The gentian is rare in this neigh- ever, my turn will come next time, borhood and very shy in its haunts but I am very certain if I bad so* finding even a few flowers is have been I couldn’t have told whether Helen was a Trojon or a something to be proud of. Yesterday afternoon we had our Greek, dr whether Achilles quar third freshman literature lecture on reled with Agamemnoie before the Sir Walter Scott. Lt was the story walls of Troy or upon PamaSBUs. of the tatter part of Scott’s life I don’t mind telling you, for y<|u told in a charming way by a l>eau can sympathize with me, how my tiful woman, with extracts which leart goes down like lead when she read from Lockhart’s life of called upon to tell what I know, Scott, and the scene from Kenel- and am expected to talk from three w’orth, where the Queen drags Amy to ten minutes. The teacher has a Robsart before Leicester. The lec most crushing way of smiling at tures appear to be • attended by one, (she has a beautiful mouth, two-thirds of the students, for the and she knows how to smile)» and chapel looked to be more than half saying, “You don’t know it, let filled. Jn speaking of Ivanhoe she some one else tell it.” It is comical, called for those who had read it too, to hear a girl with a glib and as the majority of hands went tongue get up and proceed to talk quickly up, she left it without say all around and never hit the sub ing more, which I regretted, for I ject. The history is woise than wanted to hear her opinion. I the literature, the lectures and lost all account of my own notes lessons already have extended from watching the performance of tak the end of the Panic wars through ing notes in general, for every girl the Augustan Age. If you knew at- a lecture has a scratch block or how all manner of unexpected note-book of some kind with a pen questions are hurled at One, you cil or stylographic pen. If each would not lx? amazed at fche dis were not so dreadfully in earnest, heartened set that sometimes leaves it would be very funny. It looks the recitation room. There is one very funny to me sometimes as it great redeeming feature, and that is. The earnest faces are l>ent is that the most stupid could not down, one ear turned slightly to help learning if she wished. Lyman Abbott preached yester ward the lecturer with pencils ready to jot down the points, day from Rom. 11 15, 16. His which in my case are sometimes voice has not enough volume to and ¡¿QUietimcs not Each fill the chapel, and I lost much of the sermon on account of the in Woman and the World’s Re demption. distinctness. There was no such trouble about hearing John B. Is it, after all, to be through Gough. He is a grand old man Woman’s work and influence that and his most subdued tones are as the heathen world is to. be brought audible as the loudest. He told much like it. It is not to be course, came out strong for temper doubted that the key to hearts of ance Lyman Abbott, at 5 P. M. the women of many of the heathen Sunday Jed in prayers in Stone nations is in the hands of the wom Hall chapel, and afterward, with en of Christian lands. What an Mrs. Abbott, took tea in our dining exalted honer I What a tremendous room at the . table». resjMn^^™"- Dr. Abbott is not a regular pastor ing the enormous high death rate but a member of Mr. Beecher’s among the women and children of church. It is as editor of the India, points out the need of a fe- Christian Union that he is looked up to and - adored. Later in the evening, after silent time, we of every populated district in that wended our way by twos over to country. Dr. Valentine says :* “ I the college chapel to hear Miss believe the female medical mission Stone tell of her work among Bui- ary will relieve an amount of hu garian girls. The school in which man suffering that lies beyond the she works hopes to be to Bulgaria reach of any medical man, and what Wellesley is to America. bring to knowledge of the truth ’ Their school home, she said, was those shut out from any other form one of the outposts of which of mission agency.” Dr. Duff says: American missions are the center, “ No ordinary missionary finds ac- ccss to w qixxp . ii qi tlic licttcr and it is -only about three weeks favoring wind and tide from here ; If a female missionary knew some think of it, our home is with the thing of medical science and prac sunset nearly as far away, while tice, she would readily be admitted, theirs is with the sunrise among and thus find precious opportuni the gardens where “ attar of roses ” ties of applying also the balm of is an article of commerce. The spiritual healing to the worse dis- Bulgarians, she said, were in per eases of the soul.” Everywhere we find woman’s work steadily advanc sonal appearance very much like Americans, were often taken for ing, especially in Japan, Ghina and such rather than English. I cannot India. In Siam, almost "wnoily tell you all she said, but it was like through her influence, the King has a revelation to hear one who is a ordered that every one shall be per^ real worker talk of those things. mitted to worship as he desires. One gets a much more definite idea He has also established a college, of the work than from reading the and called a Protestant missionary to conduct it. In Syria and Persia, missionary magazines. Prince entered college at Cam- the great strongholds of Moslem bridge last week, and it is an item faith, and long oppressed by its of some congratulation to his misrule, woman’s power for good friends that instead of being obliged is felt. The Presbyterian Girl’s t<> t-nter as a freshman, he enters as Schools of Syria are so popular that a sophomore, with a chance of get the Mohammedans have opened an ting into the junior during the institution, copying their methods. year ; so his stay at Harvard may A Turkish ruler said : “ WJien a not be more than two and at most girl comes home from the seminary it is not one girl but a whole school tby?e years. I have promised never t<> write has come.” On the dark continent, you mon. than six pages at a time re<*nt,y unexplored, many of so I am crowding this page very the missionaries employed are fe close. I have the promise, too, of males. It is a noble work for a telephone communication»when 1 woman, and nobly is she going - write too often, that makes me about its accomplishment. God think of our telephone here which bless her 1 as she goes forward to is a nuisance sometimes, but I can’t Mess the world and lead it to the stop to tell you of it now, can I ? feet of Christ. Ex. You know that I love you, good night. The life that has in it no Gethse M ary S tump . mane and no Calvary, can have but We cannot expect perfection in little of Christ. /The fellowship of any or.e ; but we may demand con his sufferings prepares us for the sistency of every one, richest share of his joy,