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138 While Mrs. Sorabji was in England in 1886, the work of her schools was ably carried on by her daughters; but her absence was keenly felt in every department of missionary work at Poona.

Her husband wrote thus: "I feel as though I had lost my right hand. Often, when I have been in need of her wise counsel and prompt action, I have been forced to wait and hesitate. The mercy and wisdom of God in providing a help-meet for man never came home to me so forcibly before. I must take this opportunity of observing that my wife, who is still in England, speaks with heart-felt gratitude of the kindness and love shown to her by people in that Christian land."

Mrs. Sorabji's schools are now partly supported by a Government grant-in-aid, a clear proof of the value attached to them; she has made them over to a society, so that they may be carried on on the same lines when she and her daughters are no longer there to direct them.

That some members, however, of this remarkable family may long continue to work in Poona we may reasonably hope. The youngest Miss Sorabji already gives promise of emulating her elder sister's achievements, for she has recently matriculated at Bombay, though only fourteen, and she stood nineteenth in order of merit among nearly three thousand candidates; she, however, intends to be a doctor.