" Another part of the same prayer contained the
entreaty, "Lift not the mercy seat from off the holy ark, to look on
the law we have broken, but look into Jesus' grave, and bid us
live."
In the daily family prayer meetings every inmate of the room was
specially and tenderly remembered. Once, when a father had come for
his daughter, and Miss Fiske went to find her, on opening the door
she heard a prayer for one who had shown little feeling; and in
pleading the sufferings of Christ on her behalf, each petition
seemed to rise higher, till every face was turned upward, as if to
see him; and the one who led in devotion involuntarily stretched out
her hands to lay hold of him, saying, "Come, Lord Jesus, and save
our perishing sister; but if she will not receive thee in this life
we must forever rejoice in her destruction"--a striking illustration
of intense spiritual emotion, bringing the heart into sympathy with
the whole truth of God. (Rev. xix. 3.)
These labors for their impenitent associates, and for those women
who came to the Seminary, were full of Christ. The hour between
supper and the evening meeting was usually spent in personal labor
from room to room; and the entreaties and prayers, then audible on
all sides, made it delightful to be a stranger in a strange land for
Jesus' sake.
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