Let Guly introduce herself to the reader by giving her own account
of her conversion, in 1856:--
MY DEAR SUPERINTENDENT, MISS FISKE: I wish now, as far as I can, to
describe to you my spiritual state. The first four weeks of the
revival I did not realize that I was lost, but afterwards was more
burdened; my sins were round about me like dark clouds. One night I
went to Miss Rice to have her pray with me. I did not know how to
find Christ. She told me; yet all that night I saw no light, but
only darkness. I was almost in despair, yet felt that this was from
Satan. In the morning the sun rose pleasantly, but it was as night
to me; for I knew that I had no portion in God. So I continued all
that day. I could not read in my class, but went to my room, and
vowed not to leave it till I had some token that Christ was mine. I
brought nothing in my hands save my sins, which were like mountains.
I remembered that scripture, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be as white as snow;" and I recalled the promises of God, and
that no other could pardon me. With earnest longing, I laid my soul
into the hands of Jesus.
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