Incidents of School Life

“Mohammedans profess to honor four books―the Law, the Psalms, the Gospel, the Koran.”
“‘Our great desire is to see in every school a senior class of girls able to read well, and each with a whole Bible in her hand; then indeed we shall rejoice.’ I often call these words to mind, with thankfulness, when returning from our schools, where bright classes of intelligent children take an interest in Scripture teaching. For many years, the first-class girls in each school had been reading the New Testament, and we are now supplying them with whole Bibles, strongly bound, the gift of a friend in England. If they become acquainted with the books themselves, and learn to compare passage with passage, finding how all bear witness to Christ, and noting the contradictions which are in the Koran, we trust that, at last, they will see the truth of our Lord’s words: ‘Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.’ The children very much enjoy reading in the book itself, the stories of ‘the prophets’ (so they call all our Bible saints) whose names they know.”
But we must not suppose that the Mohammedan little girls are more attentive than English children. One little pupil, when we question her on her lessons, says, ‘Tell me first, then I will tell you.’ If we urge her to try to remember, she tosses her untidy little head (all their heads are untidy), and says, ‘It won’t come.’”
“The work among Mohammedan women and children here has been, and is, a great pleasure to me. They are always ready to listen when I read and teach them. They love listening to our hymns, and especially like the slow, solemn tunes,”
Let us thank God for the many Christian ladies who are devoting themselves to the work of the gospel amongst the children and women of India, and let us rejoice at the entrance of the divine word into so many of their hearts. There is a mighty and unquenchable power in the Holy Scriptures which nothing can by any possibility annul. May His word have free course and be glorified all over the earth, and may the young in its uttermost parts love the name of Jesus.