Yonan, the junior teacher of the school, had been married by force
two years before, by his wicked father; that, too, when his heart
was fixed on another, every way fitted to be his companion. It was a
severe trial; but grace triumphed, and his great desire, seemed to
be the conversion of the wife thus forced upon him. At midnight, he
was often heard interceding for her, and, in the early part of the
revival, the answer came. Miss Fiske will never forget the time
when, in an adjoining room, she heard her for the first time praying
with her husband. It gave her a new insight into the meaning of that
scripture, "They believed not for joy." The new convert was very
active among the women in her village; and when her father-in-law
forbade social prayer in his house, she took her little company at
sunset behind the village church, where even the bleak winds of
February did not chill their devotions.
Khanumjan, the aged mother of John, though past threescore and ten,
entered into the work with a zeal that might put to shame many
younger women in our own land. She toiled to bring the more aged
women right to the cross, taking them one by one into her own
closet, that then and there they might accept the Saviour.
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