AFTER our work was finished to-day, I went off to the river with a number of our girls. Mrs. Arnot had promised each of them a new pinafore, so they all went to have a bath in the river. We carried the new clothing along with us and they came home quite delighted wearing them. You can hardly imagine how happy these dear girls are, and how kind they are in many of their ways. On our way to the river to-day, we met a woman carrying a large basket on her head and a child on her back. In a minute one of the girls had the basket lifted off her head and carried it herself. Another took the child and carried it along, thus relieving the poor creature of her burden. Some of us remember the day that Jesus met us and relieved us of a heavier and bigger burden―the burden of our sins. O that these down-trodden women but knew the rest of that great deliverance, how it would sweeten their lives here, and give them the blessed assurance of a home in heaven hereafter. One little dot, whose name is Nambanja, brought me the present of a basket of corn from her village “Ocingunda." She came with us to the river, and before returning home with her nice new pinafore on, she sang her little hymn, "Come to Jesus,” in the Umbundu language. In the village where this child comes from, there was a great beer drinking fete. What a scene of revelry and foolishness, just what Satan likes to get sinners here and elsewhere occupied with, that he may deceive them and lure them on to the pit.