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pupils for the spiritual welfare of their relatives. Difficulty has been experienced now and again as to premises for the schools, and in 1°07 the girls’ school had to be closed for a time in consequence of the tenancy of the old premises having expired and new ones not having been found. At the suggestion of a number of the elder girls prayer-meetings were held at which petitions were offered that suitable buildings might soon be discovered, and before long the search was successful. The boys’ school was moved to new quarters in 1908. Soon afterwards the fees were raised, but this has not diminished the number of pupils, and a better class of boys has begun to be attracted. A small hostel was opened in the autumn of the year named.

3. HELOUAN.

Helouan is a town containing about 3,500 inhabitants, situated in the desert some sixteen miles south of Cairo. Somewhere in the ‘nineties a day-school for high-class Turkish and Egyptian girls was opened here by Mrs. 8. W. Edwards, of Clifton, and in 1903 it was handed over to the C.M.S. The attendance fluctuates considerably, since in the intense heat of the summer many of the Turkish families leave the town. There is also a good deal of objection to the Christian teaching which is given, and it is a common occurrence for children who appear to be interested in the Gospel to be removed by their parents. That some impression is made by the Bible-teaching appears from the following extract from a letter written by Miss P. A. Jackson, the missionary in charge :— ‘We have been greatly gladdened by several asking, ‘‘ How much does a Bible cost? I want one’’; and several have told me they do love Christ. A girl who was taken away on account of Christian teaching seemed at that time to have no love for the Bible, but now she really has, and although she has left the town for several weeks, she has taken a Bible with her, and has said that she will read and pray daily. Another girl, who would gladly have stayed away from the Scripture class when she first came to our school about two years ago, told us she would on no account miss it, and that she did love Christ and pray to Him.’

At the Esbeh (village), ten minutes’ walk from Helouan, the Society has a small school, also taken over from Mrs. Edwards, in which very elementary instruction is given. The school has