eded in getting a few to
take part in our prayer meetings, and we have the assurance that
_all_ the people are awaking to the fact that God has some demands
upon them. We have from the first kept up regular Thursday night
prayer meetings; have had good attendance, but often only Mr. Myers
and myself to take part in them except as others read Scripture
verses.

On the Sabbath we have Sunday-school at 9:30. Average attendance,
100; preaching at 11. I hasten home, saddle my horse, and ride six
miles to the next railroad station (Pleasant View). Here I have met
100 or more young people. I have been surprised that in a land where
a woman isn't expected to _know_ anything, or _be_ anything but a
doll or a drudge that there has been so little prejudice against my
school. Some, of course, have thought a woman entirely out of her
sphere to undertake such work and have taken occasion to remark to my
friends: "Why, Mrs. Myers opens the school by prayer, just as Mr.
Myers would. I don't know but it's all right, but it don't seem just
the proper thing for a woman to do."

Mr. M. has a mission in South Williamsburg or the mills, where
numbers of children are growing up in the midst of gambling and
shooting. Prof. W. has, about the same hour, a school two miles out
in another direction. At night we have services again in
Williamsburg. At these services we have more than can get into the
house, and many are obliged to leave for lack of accommodation.
Tuesday nights we go to Pleasant View and help them learn the Gospel
Songs. Each alternate Wednesday evening, church socials; each
alternate Friday afternoon, Band of Hope; Saturday evening, choir
drill; Covenant Meeting once a month on Saturday afternoon.

Mr. Myers has preached during the year beginning with Oct. '82, one
hundred and forty-two sermons. The services, together with the other
public services just mentioned, have amounted to three hundred and
forty. Have attended fifty or more meetings conducted by others. We
spend all the remaining time our strength will permit in calling at
the homes.

We have a neat modern church nearly finished, and so far without
foreign help. But no one knows what an effort has been required. Mr.
Myers would announce a working bee to draw stone or any such work;
would try to enthuse the people as he has so often done in the North.
But when the time would come he has worked all day alone. We have
learned at last that this people don't enthuse.