The hopeful converts in the Seminary, after spending the summer of
1846 at their own homes, in circumstances of great trial and
temptation, returned, all save one, not only retaining their
interest in spiritual things, but established in Christian
character. Their friends also testified to their thoughtfulness,
prayerfulness, and cheerful obedience at home, and the influence of
their piety was happy on others.
For a while, in the autumn of 1846, the school was disbanded on
account of the cholera. But, contrary to the fears of many, after a
separation of two months, all were spared to meet again, though
hundreds had fallen on all sides. Three weeks afterwards, the
Christians among them seemed more than usually earnest in prayer for
the conversion of the impenitent, and at once the answer came. The
first one awakened was Moressa, now the wife of Yakob, of Supergan,
and then about fourteen years of age. She had been taken into the
family of Mrs. Grant nine years before, and that of Mr. Stocking
afterwards. She had received much religious instruction, with
apparently little effect; but now her convictions were deep, though
she did not submit to Christ for nearly a week after she felt she was
lost.
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