Of women a larger number than usual were present, and seemed to be waking up to the idea, that religion was a thing for them.

From twelve to fifteen women attended a daily afternoon prayermeeting.

It was affecting to think how lately these were blind devotees of the virgin and the saints, and profaning the name of God a hundred times a day.

"Going to the afternoon service," says Mr.Smith, "where Butrus addressed the people, I found the children of the congregation assembled in the court, and engaged in repeating the Assembly's Catechism.

Their order was perfect, their attention solemn, and their answers generally given with correctness, while the teacher showed his own improvement by the explanations he gave them.