She had learned to pray
where her Saviour found a cradle--in the manger--cast out and
derided by her friends.
She was first awakened in the Seminary; for one day, as soon as she
entered the door, a pupil, then under deep conviction herself, and
to whom she was an entire stranger, seized her hand, saying, "My
sister, my sister, what are you doing? We are all lost. We must
repent, or perish." These words she could not forget, and from that
hour sought until she found her Saviour, and then bore ill treatment
with such meekness as won others also to Christ.
The desire of the converts for instruction was most affecting. One
of them wept bitterly when asked if she was willing to forsake every
sin, saying, "What shall I do? I have one sin so strong that I fear
I cannot leave it off." "What is it?" "I cannot live without these
words of God. My husband will not let me go to hear them, and anger
sometimes rises in my heart at this. Tell me what to do with this
sin."
An account of the revival in 1850 will be given in the chapter on
the prayerfulness of the Nestorians. After this were instances of
conversion each year, but not so marked, or so general, as in 1849.
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