She was at first
disappointed at the prospect of coming back to the world; yet still
she sweetly said, "Thy will be done," as God restored her to health,
with its responsibilities and temptations,
April came, and a scarcity in the plain, occasioned by locusts,
drove the fugitives from Tiary back to their mountains. The teachers
hoped the girls might remain, and besought their parents to allow
them to do so, but in vain. They were only too glad to get their
daughters away from influences which in their blindness they
abhorred. But God intended through these daughters to lay the
foundations of many generations, and build again the old waste
places of those mountains.
It was hard for them to go. How could they leave their Christian
home, and the means of grace they had enjoyed so much? It was no
less hard for the teachers to think of those lambs as about to be
left at the mercy of wolves, in rocky glens, so far away that no cry
of distress would ever reach them. Yea, even if those loved ones
died, long years might pass ere their friends could hear of their
death. Those were days of sadness, and communion with God was the
only comfort of all, and especially of Sarah.
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