The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-14

think l should bring 10 you, but can not refrain from doing so, because 1t tells you of the latest phase of Chris tian life In our own Institute. We have always had the privilege of knowing that the members of the family, almost without exception, were Christian girls; and in time we have seen them, one af- ter another profess Christ in public; nearly all who have been members of the school have sooner or later stood up In our little chapel and confessed Christ or they have gone to their own homes to do so, but most of them have done so with us.
 When I left Spain last october there were few of class D, as we call them, who had never confessed Christ public ly. I thought them Christian girls, for they were ready to take part in all the meetings; they were ready to do what they could, and showed by their daily life and spirit that they were trying to serve Christ. But in Spain that final step, the confessing Christ means so much; it means that when they go to their homes they will there confess Christ. We were longing for this, and as came away I felt still that God would bring about this very thing, and that these girls, before they should leave us, would become Gods publicly confessed children.
 Miss Barbour writes me from Biar- ritz, which Is in southern France, lit tie north of San Sebastian, a place where a great many English live in the winter, and where one of our special friends comes to spend the winter every year, Lady Tankerville of northern England. She is an earnest Christian woman, person of some means and of position and when she reached Biar- ritz this winter she immediately pre- pared to hold a series of meetings which | should influence those who were about I her and especially the English people, who come there without much idea of God or Christian life in their minds but to have a good time, as to the higher Christian life Among the pleasant thoughts that came to her was this one Ito invite all our older girls who un- derstood English to establish this series of meetings in her own home in Biar- ritz. and in order that they could do 1t she hired a villa on one of the hills overlooking the Bay of Biscay for two days and then she asked that one of | the teachers or two of the teachers, with half of the girls, should come up for the meetings of one day and spend the night, and the other half should fol- low the next day and spend the night also.
 Miss Barbour writes: "Oh. that you | UAA JN ,AA as much as we do; but I am sure it Is partly in answer to your prayers that we are here so you know all about it. | And then she describes the going of the girls into a new country. Some of them had never crossed the frontier of Spain to hear the new language which some of them had partly learned, and now they were to be present in these meet ings in which they should hear a new setting forth in the English language, which they could all understand well enough to receive some benefit from it.
 Then shortly after came another note saying: "All the girls who are left of class D are to unite with the church on the first Sunday of May" CA week ago Sunday) And my little girl, whom I had brought with me from Spain, then a member of that class, was, sngularly enough, to do the very same thing in this country. So it was a special day for me, that first Sunday of May, feel ing that God in His love and mercy was blessing them and blessing me here-blessing the work in such a pecu- liar way, because the girls themselves write to me, Never before have we ex- perienced such spiritual life" know they were ready for it. The time had come. Never before has the Bible seemed to mean so much to us.' And one after another in these very inter- esting letters said, T hope to be newly consecrated from this very time. and I hope to be something" And this is the burden of their letters, Il hope to be something to Spain!
 And last January about fifty, a few more than fifty, of these girls who had been with Us, some of them, so many years, who, many of them called us father and mother, and really looked to us as if we were relatives, and to the other teachers as to their nearest and dearest friends, arranged a series of letters in which they recounted their lives, in which they congratulated us on the work of the twenty-five years which had been finished in Spain at that time. and they this little book, bound In white, which they call "Ech- oes of Twenty-Five Years" Nothing more precious could have come to us, who have gone through these many years with discouragements that we did not tell you about, with difficulties which God in His own way has over- come.
 And so to-day while I speak of these results my last word must be hope for the future, and of an earnest pleading with you to look into the future with us and do your part. I don't know but you have prayed too much I don't know but that the blessing is so great now that we are not able to manage it. However that may be, I think prayer should continue. I do believe God is going to bless the work, and that in His time and way He will place it in a per manent setting. It is a jewel that we offer here.
 Mrs. De Peu of Bridgeport offered prayer for our missionaries, after which MT. Roberts, the pastor of the church announced that luncheon would be served at Pythian hall at 12:3O.
 The exercises of the morning closed