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can sympathize with Paul in his anxiety in behalf of those for whom
he had labored in the gospel.
Sometimes the pupils of the Seminary so dreaded the scenes of home,
in vacation, that they preferred to remain in the school.
In April, 1849, Miss Fiske visited the village of Degala. As it was
a holiday, most of the women had gone out for amusement; but a
little company of twelve praying ones gathered around her, and
listened in tears while she spoke of Jesus and his love. Their
fervent prayers for neighbors and friends made her feel that a
blessing was yet in store for Degala. These women suffered all sorts
of insult for their attachment to the truth; they were often beaten
and driven from their homes by their husbands. While the pupils of
the Seminary were here, some of their own sex did all they could to
annoy them. But read an account of their trials from the pen of
Sanum, of Gawar. She writes to a friend in this country,--
"I had bitter times this vacation, for our neighbors are all very
hard-hearted, not listening at all to the words of God. When I
opened my Testament to read to them, they would shut it, and begin
to quarrel about the forms of religion.
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