" She wrote
to a friend an account of her success, adding, "I shall be glad to
give them to the Lord Jesus, and love to look on them as the
beginning of my dear school." These two pupils were supported by
ladies in Maiden, Massachusetts, and the number soon increased to
six; but fifteen days after, two of them, finding the gate open,
suddenly left for home. Their teacher did not think it advisable to
follow them; nor did she see them again till, ten years after, an
invitation for a reunion of all her scholars brought two whom she
did not recognize. She said, "Perhaps you were here under Mrs.
Grant?" "No, we were your own scholars for fifteen days, and we are
very sorry we ran away." They are now both useful Christians, and
the places they left in 1843 were speedily filled by others.
The care of the school was much more exhausting than its
instruction. When the teacher went out, and when she came in, she
must take her pupils with her, for she dared not leave them to
themselves. Indeed, so strong were the feelings of their friends,
that they allowed them to remain only on condition that they should
lodge with or near their teacher, and never go out except in her
company.
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