On the day of their departure, the whole school came together, in
the room of the teachers, for the parting prayer. All was silent,
till the three asked to go and bid a farewell to their closets. They
went, and only He who seeth in secret knows how they prayed. They
returned weeping. A few words of comfort were uttered, and the
teachers commended them to God. They rose from their knees, but only
to kneel again; for one of the pupils proposed that all who would
pledge themselves to remember their Tiary sisters in every prayer
should join hands around them, commend them to the good Shepherd,
and give to him their pledge. About twenty thus enclosed the
departing sisters, and so they continued in prayer until the last
moment. As the dear ones passed out, they could not speak, they
whispered but one word,--"the promise,"--and so they went. For years
after, no prayer was heard within those walls that did not contain a
petition for "blessings on our Tiary sisters."
Many a time had her teacher noticed the large folio page of Sarah's
Syriac Testament wet with her tears, and after she left, found the
whitewash of the wall in her closet furrowed with the same.
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