Excerpt from Life and Light for Woman, 1903, Vol. 33 But these are only Sidelights on the real Situation. The heart of our life was not even in the home. In our inexperience we had expected the Mexi cans would be glad to see. Us, as in all traditional Sunday-school literature; but on the contrary, we, were told' very plainly that we were not wanted. In the street there -were sometimes stones, always averted faces, often insulting remarks, and it was very hard to get near enough to touch the lives about us. In nothing do we see a greater change than in our personal relations with those whom we meet. We'are treated with kindness and courtesy by many who consider us mistaken in our religious views but sincere in our de sire to do good. To be sure, the bad boy occasionally calls out as Mrs. Missionary walks by in her black working hataud gown, There goes the little black ant or when she has 011 her Sunday white he exclaims with mock admiration, See the graceful white swan or if in her best silk array, he Shouts, Her majesty now goes forth but Mrs. Missionary cannot help laughing because she likes a joke, and the bad boy sees her and laughs too, and much of the bitterness is gone. There have been days when there have been showers of stones on the windows, and scowling' men with knives about the door, and shouts of Death to the Protestants I on the streets but they have not come nigh us yet, and we can trust for the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.