24 Stations in Egypt.

school. One of the older pupils renounced Islam in 1898 and was received into the visible Church, taking the name of Lydia at her baptism; a former pupil, greatly influenced by Lydia, was baptized on her death-bed in the following year; two other girls, sisters, who had been in the school for eight years, openly confessed Christ with their mother’s consent in 1900; and Lydia’s sisters, Christina and Ruth, were baptized in 1903 and 1905 respectively. Through the children the women missionaries found openings in several homes, and one told of visits paid at the giri’s request to Lydia’s grandmother. The last-named displayed unbounded delight when the words, ‘Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,’ were read to her, and clapped her hands, saying, ‘It is for everybody, the Moslem women as well as the Christians. Praise be to God!’

Extension of Female Education.

In 1903 the C.M.S. educational work among girls was extended in accordance with recommendations drawn up after careful inquiry by Miss T. H. Bird, one of the recruits of 1901 and previously Lady Principal of the Training College for Mistresses at Cheltenham. Some of the elder girls of the boarding-school were drafted into a training class which was formed, and a new and well-equipped day-school was opened in the Moslem quarter of the city. During the years which have since elapsed several young women have passed through the training class to posts in the Mission; the boarding-school, with some fifty boarders as well as a number of day scholars, has continued to furnish converts, albeit but a small proportion of the girls are Mohammedans; while at the day-school, where seventy-five per cent. of the children are non-Christians, many of them regularly join with their Christian companions in the daily prayermeeting. The boys’ school has not fared sa well, and in 1906 it was closed, about a dozen of the most promising pupils being transferred to the school at Old Cairo.

Meetings for Sheikhs.

While increased attention was thus given to the schools the evangelistic work was by no means neglected, but that too was developed. Lantern meetings were held at the Book Depét, and by their means several men belonging to the middle classes were