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Title: Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Annual report of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Annual report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education. Annual report of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Annual report of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund. Annual report of the Board of the Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers. Annual report to the General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. Annual report of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies. Annual report of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Systematic Beneficence. Report of the General Assembly's Special Committee of the Presbyterian Church on Systematic Beneficence Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Permanent Committee on Temperance. Annual report of the General Assembly's Permanent Committee on Temperence for the year ending ..
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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rtment hasadvanced very decidedly in the way of securing regular and fairlyefficient work from the pupils. Every student receiving aid wasrequired to do a definite amount of work, and this year this isrequired of every student in the Syrian boarding department,whether helped or not, the amount of work varying from threeto fourteen hours per week. While the best plan is to go slowlyand to make the self-help department efficient, there are certainlyreasons for the development of industrial training. The communitywe serve is largely rural and the boys need to be trained in laborand not estranged from it. The best kind of training would prob-ably be horticultural (including vine culture) and agricultural. Fiske Seminary.—In the Syrian Department there was noSenior class this year because there were only two girlsready and it was not thought wise to give the time of teach-ers for separate classes for two girls, so they reviewed theirJunior class of 23 members, one of whom left before the
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WEST PERSIA—ITRTJMIA .TH close of school to marry in Soiij-balak, the other 22 passedtheir examinations for next terms Senior class. We were very much gratified to have the new Syriac Gram-mar, the first text book of tlie sort we have had and we wantto congratulate Mr. John Mooshie, the author, on tilling this verygreat and long felt need and we hope that in the near future wemay have a good text-boolc in geography and a series of read-ing books in the Syriac language. A matrimonial epidemic has quitedevastated our ranks this year, the last victim being our bake-woman wlio will make a charming bride of sixty summers. RabINergis Thomas who has been a teacher here for 15 or 1(3 yearsleft in June to go to America. During all these years she hasbeen a faithful and efficient as well as a consecrated Christianwho had the best interests of the school at heart and gave her-self freely in its service. In the winter we had a week of specialprayer services for the girls. Two or three weeks pre

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