The company would lodge by night in tents, and it was asked
that the angel of the Lord might ever encamp round about the moving
tabernacle. Borne in mind as they should pass on, first to the
steamer, and then to the sailing vessel, she asked that when they
should be on the "fire ship," the flame might not kindle upon them;
and when on the "winged ship," where the waves would go up to
heaven, and down to hell, that He would keep them in the hollow of
his hand, and bring them to the desired haven. She then asked that
all her teacher's friends might be spared till she should reach
them, especially the aged mother, and that when she should fold her
daughter in her arms, she might say, like Simeon of old, "Now
lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." Here she paused, and Miss
Fiske thought she had finished; but soon she added, "May our
teacher's dust never mingle with a father's dust, or with a mother's
dust; but may she come back to us to mingle her dust with her
children's dust, hear the trumpet with them, and with them go up to
meet the Lord, and be forever with him." Nor did their prayerfulness
cease after their teacher had left them.
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