Nazee was absent, but came home in the morning--a
widow with two children. She was delighted, and even her children
seemed to recognize in the strangers their mother's friends. She was
poor; her house had been burned, and almost all it contained; but a
stone was on her Testament, and that was saved. They talked long
with her, and gave her a copy of the Rays of Light (the monthly
periodical issued by the mission), and a pencil to write to her
friends. She gave them letters written ten years before, which she
had penned in secret, and carried about with her ever since, waiting
an opportunity to send them.
The next day, another long journey brought them to the home of
Sarah; she saw them coming and hastened to meet them; but that very
night she had to leave for a distant village: yet not till in answer
to prayer they had an opportunity to pray together; and the friends
left that village happy; for, as Yonan said, they "found her, like
the others, having the love of our Christ in her heart."
That solitary disciple, through those long years of seclusion, never
hearing the voice of Christian fellowship, or knowing whether her
pious friends were alive, or if her sisters still remembered their
pledge, was yet kept of God according to his promise; and it is
interesting to see that she does not once allude to her persecutions
in her letters, but only solicits the prayers of her friends for her
relatives and neighbors; and then, while both Mr.
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