By and by the parents came back, and, falling
on the necks of their children, told them they might stay, till they
returned to Tiary. The teacher never heard a more gentle and subdued
"thank you" than this announcement called forth from those mountain
girls. This was the first movement of the school towards the
evangelization of Kurdistan, and it will be seen how Providence led
the Seminary at Seir in the same path.
The girls were taken in, washed, and clothed; and though at first
they knew no more of good manners than of the alphabet, they made
commendable progress in both. Better than that, Sarah and Nazeo
became hopefully pious in the revival of 1846, and Heleneh three
years afterwards.
The last days of the spring term, in 1849, as we have seen, were
full of interest. The teachers did not understand it then, but now
they see that God was preparing his first messengers to the rude
mountaineers for the work before them. Among a company of praying
ones, Sarah had long been known as "the praying Sarah." She was the
pupil whom Deacon Isaac invited to come and pray[1] [Footnote 1: See
page 151.
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