The number wishing to learn to read was so large that it
was difficult to provide for them. Men came begging good teachers
for their wives, and women came pleading for spelling books for
their husbands. After school, at their own request, Miss Fiske met
twenty-one girls, who had been members of her school (twenty of them
now teachers in the Sabbath school), and gave them a word of counsel
and encouragement in their work. At the close of afternoon service,
the women who could read staid with her till near sunset, they never
so thankful before, and she never more thankful to be with them.
The next glimpse we take of Geog Tapa shall be from a native
standpoint. A young man of the village, possessed of more than
ordinary abilities, was early taken into the Male Seminary. His
influence over the rest was so great, and so decidedly opposed to
religion, that he was about to be sent away, when grace made him the
first fruit of the revival in 1846. Yonan (for that is his name) was
a teacher in the Female Seminary from 1848 till 1858, and, as he was
generally accustomed to spend his Sabbaths in his native village, on
Monday morning he handed in to Miss Fiske a written report of the
labors of the previous day; and from, these we now give some
extracts:--
"_January 17th_, 1858.
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