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By this time their fingers were pressed closely on their lips, and
no one made a reply. Having thus secured silence, Miss Fiske took
the New Testament, and read to them of Mary, who, she was sure,
never talked in meeting; for if she had, Jesus would not have loved
her so much. She talked to them about fifteen minutes more, and
prayed with them, and they went away very still and thoughtful.
Miss Fiske gave this account to the writer, with no idea that he
would print it. But he thinks--and the reader will doubtless agree
with him--that in no other way could he convey so vivid an idea of
woman as she was in Persia, or the tact needed to secure a first
hearing for the truth. Miss Fiske was often called to deal with just
such rude assemblages, and by varied methods she generally succeeded
in securing attention. In subsequent visits to Ardishai the number
of hearers was never again so large; but they came together from
better motives, and, as we shall see, not without the blessing of
the Lord. In March, 1850, Miss Rice met nearly three hundred women
in the same church, some of them awakened, and a few already
hopefully pious.
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