We continually pray Him who gave you to us, to restore
you again in mercy to our people. If counted worthy, I should
greatly rejoice to receive a little note from you."
She returned to Oroomiah in the spring of 1860, and left again in
1861 for Amadia. When she went away, her three children had the
whooping cough; so she would not go into any of the mission families
lest she should spread the disease among the children; but after she
was all ready to go, and the heads of her own little flock were
peeping out of the saddle-bag contrivance in which they rode, Mrs.
Breath went out to bid her good by. Sarah told her how Miss Fiske
had said, when she took her oldest child into her arms for the first
time, "'Now, Sarah, you will not seek for this child a pleasant home
upon the plain, as Lot did, but rather to do God's will, and then he
will give you all things." "I have always remembered it," she added,
"and am not willing now to be found seeking my pleasure here."
During the long winter of 1861-62, no messenger could cross the
mountains from Oroomiah to Amadia; and she thus writes in March,
1862, to Miss Rice:--
"I did greatly long for the coming of the messenger.
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