In connection with this, one incident claims
our notice. One day in February, a box arrived from America for the
Seminary; but so engrossed was the teacher with more important
duties, that it was midnight ere she could open it. Next morning,
all were invited to her room, to see the contents. She told of the
kind friends who had sent it, and the love of Christ, that
constrained to such kindness. They were moved to tears, but not one
rose to examine the things, and not a word was spoken, till the
proposal was made that the quilts should be kept for the use of
their friends who came to hear the word of God. All joyfully agreed
to that, and then, after looking at the articles, they returned to
pray for their benefactors.
The last meetings of the school before the March vacation were
called thanksgivings, and fitly, too, for in the two Seminaries as
many as fifty souls had begun to love the Saviour, When they left,
the universal cry was, "Pray for us." "Pray for us in the
temptations that await us at home." One little girl said, "Did you
ever see a new-born lamb cast into the snow and live? And can we
live?" Thank God, most of the hopeful converts did live, and we
trust are to live forever, with the good Shepherd who gave his life
for their salvation.
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