After the lamp was put out at night, I
could not sleep for the sounds of prayer and weeping on all sides.
In some houses, very young children had heard their parents pray so
much, that they also did the same. The women, too, had frequent
meetings by themselves. One day I led some men to a place where they
could hear women praying within the latticed window of a house, and,
trembling, they begged me to teach them also how to come to God."
The missionaries avoided all stirring appeals to the passions, among
a people so excitable, though the ready performance of every duty
manifested the sincerity of the praying pupils, while it made the
labors of their teachers pleasant.
There was not that agonizing wrestling in prayer on the first Monday
of 1850 that had marked the same day the year before; but the
following week was characterized by unusual tenderness in both
Seminaries, and two of the older pupils of the Female Seminary found
no rest except in their closets.
On the evening of the second Sabbath in January, Miss Fiske was not
able to attend the prayer meeting, and remained in her room alone.
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