A CALL for a school came from a Mohammedan village six miles away. We attempted to fill it, even bringing a teacher up from Calcutta. The villagers tried to put up a school building in three different places, but each time were forced to give up. One site was near a tank where high caste Hindu women bathed. Another was a government grazing ground. And the third time they were not permitted to get water for mixing the mud. Just at the time when all looked dark we were asked to open up school in a Mohammedan village near the Karmatar bazaar. A large house was offered us by a cripple who is very favorable to Christianity and who is highly respected by both Hindus and Mohammedans. He called the villagers together, and decided to open two schools, one for girls and one for boys.
The people were a bit fearful at first to send their girls, as no girl had ever been educated in Karmatar before. The first day we did not have more than twenty in the two schools. To-day we have twenty-two girls and fifty boys. From the first day the Bible has been taught, and appreciated by the children. School always opens with prayer. Tho we are only beginning, these children can tell about the birth of Jesus, and His childhood and miracles, as readily as our Christian children in the home land.
IN TOUCH WITH THE MOSLEMS
DELLA BURROWAY.
Karmatar, West Bengal.
PREACHING TO MOSLEMS INDIA MOHAMMEDAN GIRL'S SCHOOL BENGAL INDIA
