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74 Letters from Christian Workers at Home and Abroad.in this morning and says he has ninety pupils, who said he was a Protestant from Diarbekr,and I wen y more wish to come next week. In a He had come here to flnd his brother, who hadletter received f om America this morning, one died in the meintime. His money was gom-, andof my correspondeuts says, tha- one of our good the inn-keeper had seized his clothing. No onepeople at home feared that the money of certain would belp him because he was a young man.congregation contributed lasi fai for the Cili- Tne sum needed to redeem his goods was aboutclan Famine Fund, was likelv to be lost. This ten cents. Doctor gave it to him and somethinghe inferred from Doctor Metheny's letter con- to buy food till be would reach Adana, Tbecerning the closing of the schools. I am very poor man crie I with joy. Already the poorglad that this was mentioned, for it gives me an M-slems and Fellaheen are beginning to find oiii.opportunity to assure ever v one who have con- that Protestants are their friends. We to k intributed to this object tbat not one cent of their a little giri last week who is between three andgenerous gifts has been wasted or lost. Itis four years of age. A wealthy G'eek who has atrue tbat our work has been greatly interfr-red c 'usiderable in erest in Kara-da-war, was met atwith, but our boa ding school for giris here in tbe village sometime ago, and launched out in aMersine, has n t been touched, for the reason tira 'e of ab 'se against Protestants. " We dotbat tbe- dare not enter an Am-rican domicile to not find what you say of them true," said oi'e ofdo so. Finding that our other schools were in the villagers. '• T'hey don't worship pictures anddanger of beiug closed, we concluded to accept images ; they do not lie to us, nor cheat ns ;boys here too. We reuted a room in an adjoin- they feed us and teach us."ing house, but it was soon over-filled, so we fin- We have had copious rains this winter, so tbatished off a large room on the ground floor front we have good rea on to expect that we will haveof our own house, and filled it. This had been a fruitful season. In the meantime^ we will beintended as a dining-room for the girls, but we able to support these children till the coldthought it better to let them eat in the kitchen, weather is over, if indeed, we be allowed to doand have more pupils under instruction As thi-. And now we e rnestly desire that all whosoon as ever tbe order came in December, we have so generously contribu;ed to ihe relief fund.opened the closed schools, l hey had only been will add ye:, riiis,their fervent and earnest praycloseda short time, so tbat now we bave ninety ers tbat God instead of allowing the door to bepupils, all boarders. In Kara-da-war, there ar.' closed, shutting out the light of the Gospel iromninety wbo are fed at our expense. As many as ihe Moslems, and Ansa riyeb, wi 1 grant that itthe house would accommodate sleep in it, and may ne opened wider nnd wider. I have severalthe rest in ne ghboring houses. In Adana there times mentioned the remarkable adaptition ofare flfty-sixboarders. In Yusef Jedeed's scbool the Psa'm sung in iamily worship to the circuminTarsus, there ar-forty-five boys, and his daugh- stances of our work. This mornmg just beforeter Lulu has forty girls. These are provided we heard of the passage of the new law, we hadwith one warm meal a day ; they sleep in theh- sung Psalm 118:1 to the 10th verse. To-nightown houses. In Mr. Dibbak's school in Tarsus then we sing,there are thirty boarders au'i from forty to fiftv •• The nations joining all in one,pupils altogether. In Karadash, twelve hours Uld compass me about," &c.irom Adana, there are f rty. 'These are also And are they not compassing the Saviourgiven one meal a day, so you see there are four about, as reall i as they did in the days of hishundred poor children, not only being fed, but flesh ? We know l,e will " root them out."le'ari ing the truths of the Gospel. Some of " No weapon iormed against Zion shall prosper."thosein this school, most of them, are clothed Our great care must bf. that we ourselves he notalso. A young man, the eldest son of the blind formin • wea ons against her.wompn whi was in the sci'Ool with her t'o We have had other trials this winter; first,young r children, bas app'ied for baptism for the the serious illness of Miss Joseph. ibis wassecond time. Ills sister also, who has been in notonU a source of anxiety in itself on ber ownschool for tffo years wishes to be baptized. Many account, but a so on account ofthe additionalgrown persons come asking relief. Only a few burden on Miss Sterrett. l'he great increose indays ago a young man came to the Doctor numbers has made this very heavy. Miss Joseph