When this mother met Miss Fiske her
feelings were so intense she could only say, "Thank God," over and
over, and weep. Her husband was moved by his child's anxiety for his
salvation. Once, when she urged him to pray, he replied, "I cannot;
but you may pray for me." She at once knelt and interceded for him,
with many tears. The gray-headed man knelt also, deeply moved, and
tears flowed from eyes not used to weep. When she ceased praying,
she rose; but his strength was gone; he could not rise. Yet the love
of the world was strong within him, and it is to be feared that he
resisted the Holy Ghost.
In 1854, Miss Fiske found about sixty families maintaining family
prayer, and hardly a family in which there was not some one that
seemed to be a true disciple. John held a prayer meeting Sabbath
morning with those whom he sent out, two and two, to preach in the
neighboring villages, and in the evening they reported what they had
done. Sabbath school commenced about nine o'clock, and before it
opened, almost all were reading or listening to those that read; and
then the school continued in session two hours, without a sign of
weariness.
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