Grant. The first fruit of the school
appropriately lies by the side of her who planted that tree in the
garden of the Lord, At the funeral her teacher was just thinking
that Sarah could help her no more, that her prayers and labors were
forever ended, when she looked up, and her eye rested on the evening
star looking down upon the grave. It was a pleasant thought that
she, too, was a star in glory. She was glad that the first to love
Christ was the first to go to be with him, and still loves to think,
of her as waiting for those who used to pray with her on earth. The
Christian life of Sarah was short; but she did much, for she taught
her people how
"Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are."[1]
[Footnote 1: For additional foots about Sarah, see Nestorian
Biography, pp. 25-40.]
After Sarah, like Stephen among the early disciples, had led the way
into the presence of her Saviour, Blind Martha was the next to
follow.
She was constrained by sickness to leave the school early in the
spring of 1847, and go home to her parents in Geog Tapa. Though six
miles distant, her schoolmates loved to walk out there to comfort
her.
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