It
opened out of the passage behind the door on the left of the
engraving. She did not tell this to the school, lest superstition
should attach an idolatrous sacredness to the place; and yet she
could not obliterate marks that to her own heart were so full of
comfort. Sarah had gone but a little way before she pleaded with her
parents to stop, and allow her to retire a little from the road for
prayer.
And so, weeping and praying as they went, these lambs were led into
the dark recesses of a den of lions. We shall see persecution
raging, pitiless as the mountain storm, and long continued. But we
shall also see the Hearer of prayer preserving them unharmed; and if
we hear more from the others than from Sarah, it may be that the
revelation of the answers to her prayers is reserved for that day
which shall unfold displays of grace too glorious for comprehension
here.
Nothing was heard from them till October, 1850, when Yonan and
Khamis entered those rocky fastnesses to gather tidings of them.
They spent the first Sabbath of the month in the house of Nazee; but
she was absent. They say in their journal,--
"We preached three times to large assemblies.
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