HAVE CHEERED AND SUSTAINED US IN ALL WE HAVE ATTEMPTED TO DO FOR THE FOREIGN FIELD, We affectionately dedicate this book. COPYRIGHT, 1890. Introduction. IND friends have often asked us why, at the many meetings which we have addressed in behalf of the work of the Jaffna College in Ceylon, and the General Medical Mission about to be inaugurated in connection with it, we have not told more about the specific work in which we ourselves were engaged during the seven years which we spent in Ceylon as missionaries. Our reply has been that, as we came to Great Britain with the special object of securing £30,000 for this College and Medical Mission, the time at our meetings has usually been consumed in presenting the claims of these special causes. But while this was so, we have often wished that we had a compilation of some of the letters written from Ceylon at different times, giving our actual every-day experiences, to present to such kind friends. Then again young ladies have often said to us, "Now please tell us about your own labours in Ceylon, and just what work we women can do in the foreign field." We have often felt an unspeakable longing, as we have looked into the bright, intelligent faces of the young ladies of this favoured land, that they might know more fully about the great opportunities of the present day for giving the Gospel to their sisters in heathendom. We believe that Christ is calling to the consecrated Christian young women of to day, as He |