Mission Work in Persia.
By Editor
From an article in the Missionary Review on "Educational Missionary Work in Persia," we cull this item:— "The missionaries have not ventured to open any schools for Mohammedans. In Tabriz and Oroomiah the fanaticism of the people is so great that no Mohammedans attend the schools opened there for Armenians and Nestorians. In Teheran and Hamadan, however, many Moslem children attend. The missionaries in the capital hesitated at first to take them, but the president of the late shah's council, the Amin-i-dowleh, requested it in writing, and now two-fifths of the boys and one-sixth of the girls in attendance are Mohammedans. Nasr-i-din Shah himself visited the schools several years before his death, to show the favor in which he held them. The girls' school especially interested him. After going over it thoroughly he was taken to the dining-room and kitchen. He had made no comment as yet, but then he looked about him admiringly, and simply exclaimed, 'Clean, clean!' In Persia at last he had seen two un-Persian things,—a just conception of woman, and cleanliness. It was only of the latter he spoke. Perhaps he not did see the former at all."