Miss Rice read about Jonah in the ship, and
said a few words; after that, Raheel the teacher prayed. Then Hanee
spoke a little of her own state, and asked us to pray for Raheel of
Ardishai, who is thoughtful. I spoke, and asked them to pray for
Hannah and Parangis, who are in my room.
"10th. The state of our school is the same. Mr. Cochran preached on
the faithfulness of the Jews under Nehemiah, when they rebuilt
Jerusalem. After meeting he told us that the members of the Male
Seminary spent yesterday as a day of fasting and prayer, and many
rose confessing their sins. One very wicked man, also from the
village, asked them to pray for him. After work was done in the
kitchen this evening, a little time remained, and the girls there
asked to have a meeting. With gladness of heart I knelt and mingled
my tears with theirs, as though I, too, were commencing the work.
Afterwards Mr. Coan came and sung with us, and we read the accounts
of the week."
Esli, the writer of the above, is the daughter of Yohanan, a pious
man in Geog Tapa, who for a time was steward of the Seminary. She
was one of the first fruits of the revival of 1856, and graduated
after Miss Fiske's return to America.
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