" With these words on her lips, she sunk into the earth. At
first she did not know what had happened, but remembered all that
had been said, and felt that God was dealing with her. Lying there
helpless and bruised at the bottom of the pit, she made a solemn vow
to God, "Never again my will." From that time she was a most lovely
example of all that was gentle. She seemed to give up every thing,
and "bear all things." Her father saw the change, and one day said
to her teachers, "I am not a Christian; but Hannah knows nothing but
God's will. If she should die now, I should know she was with
Christ, she is so like him." Her Christian character developed
beautifully; the school learned of her to be Christ-like. She longed
to do good, and was ready to make any sacrifice for the good of
souls. When Badal sought her hand from her father, the latter called
her, and said, "Hannah, Badal the son of the herdsman, wants you to
go to the mountains with him, and wants you to live here with him.
It shall be as you say." She replied very meekly, "I wish to suffer
with the people of God. I choose to go with Badal;" and June 8th,
1858, she left for her mountain home.
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