Such labor is as exhausting as it is delightful; and no
wonder his strength proved less than his zeal and love.
It was a great joy to him when his people could take part in prayer
meetings. He divided the thirty converts among them into three
circles, and met each of them twice a week: this furnished him a
season of refreshment every day, and each of them took part at least
once a week. They were thus early initiated into a course of
Christian activity, and taught that they would lose much themselves,
besides failing to do good to others, if they held back. The
converts were so rooted and grounded in this truth, that once, when
Miss Fiske was in Geog Tapa, a brother said to her that she must not
leave the village till she had induced a woman to pray with her,
whom they all regarded as a Christian, but who would not take part
in their female prayer meetings; and when she objected to urging
her, Deacon John replied, "If she was an ordinary Christian, we
might let her pass; but her position is one of such prominence, that
the other women will do just as she does; and so she must do right,"
Miss Fiske talked long with the delinquent, but she insisted that
she could not do it.
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