The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-05

Jul d LE4EElIlEI III hAlgAAE BE4AENllAS LuEI
can be saved, and they are trying to
walk with Him. have a record of six
Of these girls who came to Mrs. Bridg-
Imam at the out-station of Imfume; they
were clad in their blankets, taught by
their brothers who had attended the
night schools; they had learned to read
the New Testament and they were try
ling to lead Christian lives in spite of
much persecution. When they attempt
ed to clothe themselves after the Chris
tian fashion their parents seized their
dresses and cut them in pieces One OF
these girls said to Mrs. Bridgman, I'VE
Iare under death, for no Christian man
will marry a girl in heather dress, and
so we are forced to become betrothed to
heather men and to- obey and follow
them in their dark customs. Yet these
girls testify to their love for Jesus and
to the power they had received from
Him to keep them from daily tempta-
TONS and they pray in way which
showed their deep Christian experience,
But / must refer especially to the
schools which you women of America
are maintaining in behalf of these Zulu
girls. You know about them somewhat.
Oh, that you could see them! Your
hearts would be made glad by the vi
sion and you would labor and pray more
earnestly than ever before while you
gave thanks for the privilege you have
had in doing such a blessed work. In
anda! The crown of that station is the
Girls seminary established thirty-four
years ago by Mrs. Edwards, growing
year by year until in both it's depart
ments 1t shelters and instructs in earth
| ly and in heavenly wisdom from one
hundred and fifty to two hundred girls.
You have known of Mrs. Edwards, that
saint of God, who has given her life to
this work. She has not visited America
for twenty-seven years and had never
seen her face, and had expected to see
a halo around her head. While there
was a halo it was not at all the one I
was looking for. 1t consisted of straw
hat tied tightly down under her chin,
just as she was coming from her over
sight of the chickens and turkeys and
her banana fields, by which she has sue
ceeded in maintaining that school and
bringing it to such high efficiency.
Sometime since laying aside her cares
as instructor she has devoted her ener-
gies to the development of the indus
trial work in which she has succeeded
so welI-hetter, as Mr.. Pixley gladly tes-
titles, than any man could possibly do it
in providing for the support of the
school, while others attended to the i'm
struction. 1t was beautiful to see the
care bestowed upon every department.
The laundry with its galleries of white
garments ready to be returned to tn
customers in the neighborIng city of
Durham: the banana fields where the
girls during hours of labor were mar
shalled with their heavy hoes and were
keeping the place at the highest point
of cultivation; the poultry yard which
contributes a goodly sum each year to
the support of the seminary. This
sanity woman woulds1only speak very
disparagingly of her part In the institu-
ton, and yet its value is most apparent,
not only I'm securing supplies for the
support of the school, but in giving
wholesome training to the students in |
lines which will prove of greatest use |
fulness to them in the days to come. |
Then the scholars themselves, bright, |
active, interested in their work, showing |
in their examinations good proficiency |
in their studies and eagerness to learn. !
Miss Phelps and Miss Price are women
admirably adapted for the positions |
they are filling-the former as mana
ger in the household and the latter as
superintendent of instruction. Miss |
Prices reading charts of which there
are many, were found not only in all |
the schools Of Natal but up in the
Transvaal, and in regions still farther
to the north, and they are used wherev-
er the Zulu language is found.
A similar story could be given of the
Home at Umzumbe, under the care of
Mrs. Malcolm and Miss Frost. The
same eagerness on the part Of the stu
dents, the same enthusiasm on the part
of the teachers, the same hopefuIness
in regard to the spiritual life of the pu-
pills. Here too, was an industrial plant
supervised altogether by these women,
where nearly all the work was done by
the scholars. There were thirty acres
Of mealies or Indian corn, five acres for
beans, three acres of bananas and a
number of other acres for various veg
etables, supplying the wants almost en-
tirely of nearly one hundred girls. The
activity and strength Of body shown by
the girls were simply astonishing. You
have seen that picture, trust, of the
girls at Umzumbe with buckets of wa
ter on their heads climbing up the steep
hill. Many times I have looked at
that picture and imagined that it repre-
sented something which might OCCASION
ally be done by these girls, but when + s
found that in term time each girl
brought three buckets of water each
lay, and when I saw the hill three hum
lred and fifty feet in height above the
river, when I found that path so steep
that my feet were continually slipping
rom under me, and more than once my
hands had to aid me to an upright posi-
ion, and then when lifted one of those
buckets of water, I looked in amaze
nent over the achievements Of those
girls, and I said to Mrs. Malcolm,
This ought not so to be; such burdens /
,ught not to be put upon them" "Oh,"
The replied, "they can endure the bur- c
len; they are accustomed to such loads {
ind climbing" But" she added, ''if t
We could only have our water supply c
Without taking the time and strength of Z
he girls for this business and let them !
Ievote their energies to cultivating the r
ields we could greatly increase our sup t