The parting prayer meeting with those four girls, going as
missionaries to the mountains, was one of the pleasantest memories
that Miss Fiske carried away from Oroomiah. She left soon after, but
often heard from Hannah and her companions that she was happy in her
life of privation for Jesus' sake, and did what she could. She
suffered, however, from the change, and was advised to visit
Oroomiah for her health. It was hoped she might soon recover; but
she went only to leave her sweet testimony to the blessedness of
knowing no will but God's, and then go home. She sent the following
messages to Miss Fiske from her dying bed: "I love to have God do
just as he pleases. I thank you for all your love, and especially
for showing me my Saviour." She died in December, 1860.
Having given herself to Missionary work among the mountains, it is
interesting to know that her little property also went to the same
object. In the remarkable revival of benevolence, in Oroomiah, in
the spring of 1861, her brother gave her inheritance, which had
fallen to him, to sustain laborers in the mountains: thus, after her
life had been laid down in the work, all her living went to carry it
on.
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