She told them she
could not lead their devotions then. Their reply was, "You need not
do it; we will _carry you_ to-day." Seventy were soon assembled
in her room. They sung, "Blest be the tie that binds," and offered
six prayers. One asked that when Elijah should go up, they might all
see the horsemen and chariot, and all catch the falling mantle; not
sit down to weep, or send into the mountains to search for their
master, but take up the mantle, go, smite Jordan, and, passing over,
go to work. She then reminded the Saviour that he had promised not
to leave them orphans (John xiv. 18, Greek and Syriac), and begged
him not only to come to them, but to abide with them when their
teacher was gone. Her thoughts then turned to the departing company,
who were to take their long land journey of six hundred miles on
horseback. She asked that the sun might not smite them by day, nor
the moon by night. Theirs was a desert way, and the Lord was
entreated to spread a table for them through all the wilderness,
and, when they should pass over the narrow, precipitous roads, to
give his angels charge to keep them in all their ways, and bear them
up in their hands, lest they dash a foot against a stone; and when
they should go through the rivers, not to let the waters overflow
them.
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