] with him; and the strong man bowed before the simple
piety of that mountain girl. Her mind was not so gifted as many of
her associates. She comprehended truth with difficulty, but she
prayed with all prayer and supplication in the spirit. At this time
an unusual spirit of prayer was imparted to the school. The prospect
of vacation, instead of diverting the mind from devotion, seemed to
produce intenser earnestness. The voice of prayer fell on the ears
of the teachers at all hours, except the most silent watch of the
night. After the evening meeting, some spent two hours in their
closets, and others of the older pupils could not leave till they
had prayed with each one in the school alone. On the last morning of
the term, they separated with many tears and fervent supplications.
The quiet of the hour seemed a foretaste of the rest of heaven. Not
a loud voice, heavy step, or harshly shutting door was heard in all
the house. All was so sacredly quiet that the still small voice
might be heard the more distinctly. The teachers sent out the lambs
from the fold with feelings of peculiar anxiety. Some were to go
into families where every soul would gladly undo in them the work of
the Spirit; others to villages where not one heart could enter into
their feelings as the followers of Christ; and as they went forth,
their teachers prayed, from full hearts, that the Shepherd of Israel
would himself be to them for a little sanctuary in the places where
they went.
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