"O, yes, I
remember. Don't call him. Let him preach; I can die alone." She then
said, "Call Miss Fiske;" and her sister started to go. But the dying
one remembered that it was the hour for prayer meeting, and beckoned
her to return, saying, "She is in meeting now, with my companions.
Don't call her; I can die alone." Perhaps, with that teacher
present, her eyes had not so clearly discerned the Lord Jesus. Her
sufferings were now so great, she hardly spoke for an hour. Then she
said, in a clear voice, "Mother, raise me, that I may commit my
spirit;" for she would never approach her Saviour but on her knees.
Supported, as she had been hundreds of times before, by that
mother's strong arms, and in the attitude of prayer, she said, "Lord
Jesus, receive--" And there she stopped: prayer had ended. Instead
of the closing words of the earthly petition was the opening of the
new song in heaven. The Saviour did not wait for the close of her
petition before he answered it. The teacher had just sat down with
her pupils when the door opened, and a messenger said "Sarah is
asleep!" "Yes," thought she, gratefully, "till Jesus shall say,
'Awake!'" According to Eastern custom, Sarah was buried that same
evening (June 13th), and the whole school followed her to the grave,
which was close to that of Mrs.
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