With the School Girls at Lolodorf West Africa By MISS CHRISTINE SUDERMAN (T he w riter of th is in te re stin g article, a form er stu d en t of th e Bible In stitu te of Los Angeles, 1911-12, is now one of th e m issionaries in th e W est A frican Mission of th e P resb yterian Church in th e U. S. A. T he article is reprin ted from T he A ssembly H e r ald.—E ditors.) *
M ISS SUDERM AN AND HER G IRLS
T HE girls of our school come to us by many and varied ways. Some are sent by Christian parents, some we beg for until they come, others run away from husbands or other ties which are hateful to them. But they are coming. I heard through a Christian woman about a number of little girls who ought to be in school, but their fathers objected. I went out to see about them, not one time, but many times. The first time I couldn’t do much more than tell the father and mother what I wanted. The relatives were not all present and above all one of the fathers was not there, consequently abso
lute indifference to my requests. A few days later I went again. This time they began to think I wanted something, they were somewhat interested in having their girls come. The mothers, as Christians, couldn’t do anything but give their consent, the fathers still looked at me with misgivings, and at their little daughters with indecision, -as they were promised in, marriage and they might lose their money if they let them come. I went away with half a promise that all but one *would come, the father of this one had not yet arrived. As I was leaving, the shy little things, who had not dared to lift their eyes in the presence
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