So interested were they, that many of them
walked regularly three miles and back again, under a burning sun, to
enjoy these gatherings; and from a monthly, it had to be changed to
a weekly meeting. It sometimes lasted three hours, but never seemed
to them too long; and, commenced in 1850, it is still kept up with
as much regularity as Miss Rice's many other duties will allow. It
would be interesting to dwell on its results; but a single incident
may suffice. One mother, whose husband was not a Christian, was very
regular in private devotion, but thought she could not offer prayer
in the family, till her husband became dangerously sick, when, in
the agony of her intercession for him, she vowed that, if God would
spare him, she would establish family prayer. So, as soon as he was
able to bear it, she gathered her children around his bed, and after
they had read the first chapter of Matthew, verse about, she led in
prayer, and so went on reading the New Testament in the morning and
the Old Testament in the evening, till she got through with the
whole of the former, before any one of the missionaries knew that
she had commenced.
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