She was a founder of The Tabeetha Mission School in 1863, and for 48 years devoted herself to work in Jaffa. She was the daughter of Professor G.A. Walker-Arnott, Laird of Arlary. She was of a cultured and well-travelled family, and she first visited Jaffa in 1858, apparently as governess to the daughters of church missionaries the Reverend William Kruse and his wife Maria. Horrified at the poverty and desperate situation of the women in Jaffa, which was the port town of Jerusalem, she opened the first Tabeetha Mission School on 16 March 1863. Housed in "an upper room" among the narrow and overcrowded streets, it had 14 girl pupils, of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths. Her indomitable spirit is evident in her philosophical attitude to the obstacle of the local tongue: "As I was only a beginner in the Arabic language, I had to plod through my lesson day by day, and then teach it to my pupils". She died, bequeathing Tabeetha to the Church of Scotland. The school still exists today.
She was a founder of The Tabeetha Mission School in 1863, and for 48 years devoted herself to work in Jaffa. She was the daughter of Professor G.A. Walker-Arnott, Laird of Arlary. She was of a cultured and well-travelled family, and she first visited Jaffa in 1858, apparently as governess to the daughters of church missionaries the Reverend William Kruse and his wife Maria. Horrified at the poverty and desperate situation of the women in Jaffa, which was the port town of Jerusalem, she opened the first Tabeetha Mission School on 16 March 1863. Housed in "an upper room" among the narrow and overcrowded streets, it had 14 girl pupils, of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths. Her indomitable spirit is evident in her philosophical attitude to the obstacle of the local tongue: "As I was only a beginner in the Arabic language, I had to plod through my lesson day by day, and then teach it to my pupils". She died, bequeathing Tabeetha to the Church of Scotland. The school still exists today.
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