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 H&elat&e Gail frost. 
 
 [From Missionary Tidings, October, 1895.] 
 
 AmoDg the rugged hills of Meigs county, 
 Ohio, in a narrow, green valley, once stood a 
 cottage. In front was a long, low porch, where 
 vines and trees had grown for years untrained. 
 Here the family of A. P. Frost sought a tem¬ 
 porary home, while the father ministered to 
 the church in the vicinity. 
 
 There on September 23, 1868, Adelaide was 
 born. She came to fill the lonely hearts of her 
 parents after the death of their first-born. In 
 the early years of her life she gave no promise 
 of superiority. 
 
 At the age of seven she was sent to school in 
 the country, her parents having moved to Min¬ 
 nesota. There she displayed traits which gave 
 promise of the future scholar. She found spell- 
 
mg more difficult than any other studies. Upon 
 it she bestowed much labor, often spending the 
 entire noon hour in study. She would write 
 the lesson fifty times on her slate, not taking 
 time to eat the luncheon in her little basket. 
 
 Among the first books she read was Pilgrim’s 
 Progress. This she read many times. In her 
 second year of school she learned to write in 
 six weeks, and brought home a letter written 
 by herself to her mother. From that day until 
 this she has been one of the busiest of writers. 
 
 It was one of her childish fancies to have a 
 school of paper dolls. They sat on long benches 
 while she taught them. They each had a per¬ 
 sonality, and for them she wrote letters de¬ 
 scriptive of their struggles and sorrows. These 
 children had parents, and very amusing were 
 some of the letters which passed from one fam¬ 
 ily to the other, telling of measles, whooping 
 cough, etc. 
 
 At school she was always a leader. Her 
 teacher knew who was always ready to speak 
 or recite, when company would come unexpect¬ 
 edly. She became a Christian at the age of 
 twelve years. At that time she wrote her first 
 little letter to the Sunday-School Evangelist, 
 telling “Uncle Tom” that twelve Sunday-school 
 
scholars were baptized one beautiful evening 
 in June. She taught her first class in Sunday- 
 school at the age of fourteen. At seventeen she 
 wrote her first poem for the Christian Stand¬ 
 ard. At eighteen she taught her first school. 
 The family was living in Colorado at that time. 
 Her work as a teacher gave great satisfaction. 
 She taught in a new district, organizing the 
 work and opening the first day book in the midst 
 of the Rocky Mountains in the valley of the 
 Roaring Fork. She boarded at a wayside inn, 
 walking over lava boulders to her little claim 
 shanty, which served as a school-house. Here 
 she taught, with the utmost patience, children 
 who had never before been in school. She 
 brought them to order and gave these simple 
 mountaineers their first ideas of books and the 
 world which lay beyond the mountains. On 
 leaving, her scholars gave her their picture. Re¬ 
 turning to Ohio, she entered the University at 
 Athens, where she remained a year. Hearing 
 of Hiram and its advantages, it was thought 
 best for her to enter that institution. She 
 finished a full course in June, 1894, when she 
 was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of 
 Arts. 
 
 While in college she became a Student Vol- 
 
unteer. She was an active Christian worker, 
 a leader in the Bible work, having received a 
 training in the Y. W. C. A. school at Lake 
 Geneva, Wis. 
 
 She first met Miss Mary Graybiel at Hiram, 
 as lady principal of the Ladies’ Hall. This 
 excellent woman thought she recognized the 
 future missionary in Adelaide, and a friendship 
 full of the sweetest and most tender sympathy 
 has been the result of more intimate acquaint¬ 
 ance. 
 
 Together they left their native land for dis¬ 
 tant India. While they have planned their 
 work together, the “little bungalow” at Ma- 
 hoba will be the scene of their future work. 
 Here they will have a school for girls, an or¬ 
 phanage, a home for child-widows, and a radi¬ 
 ating point for Christian work. 
 
 Adelaide joined Miss Graybiel September 1, 
 1895. The previous summer had been spent at 
 school among the Himalaya Mountains, where 
 she acquired sufficient knowledge of the lan¬ 
 guage to teach. She longed to be of some help 
 in this land where darkness and idolatry have 
 long held dominion. A Friend. 
 
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