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Show gone into the work, for some years ago she wrote, '' I feel my call to help the Armenians all my life if only there are any left to be helped.'' It seems as if she might have said that only yesterday. Sivas is the largest city in the interior of Asia Minor, considered a key position second only to Constantinople, reaching Kurds, Turks and Armenians. Just fifty years ago the High School for Girls was started and Sivas became a center for the education of girls. In time a fine Normal College was developed, and when Miss Rice joined the Station in 1903 she found a fine system from the kinder^ garten to the College, training teachers that were in great demand in Gregorian schools as well as in their own. Her first term was a very happy one, and she returned to Turkey after her first furlough to a Station full of life and progress with new buildings going up and nearing completion. Then came the War, and pestilence and frightful persecution and exile-a whirlwind of destruction for the Armenian people. In 1916 she was obliged to leave her post and come to California. Four years after she was permitted to return, but she knew when she left us she was going back to relief work rather than to organize school work. A great responsibility has rested upon her as she has cared for the orphanages in connection with the Near East Relief. She has seen her comrades go one by one, and is there at present quite alone with a small school she has been able to gather. Under strict censorship, it has been impossible for her to give us the story of Sivas even in outline it may be she will follow the remmant of the people to whom she has devoted her life into some other land; but where-ever she goes, she is our missionary and her work we hope will always be ours. JAPAN STORY OF THE DOSHISHA JO GAKKO With Mrs. Galen M. Fisher for one of our charter members, it is not strange that we were early interested in Japan, and that her sister. Miss Talcott, the first single lady sent out by our denomina-tion to that country should be the pioneer that opened the fields in which we came to work. [ 52 ] |