" As the company dispersed, several old men
took Miss Fiske and Miss Rice by the hand, saying, with moistened
eyes, "Will you forgive us that we have done no more for your
school?" But the best of all was, some sixty adult women, from
different villages, begging for spelling books, that they might
commence learning to read. Thirty of them did not rest till they
could read their Bibles. The cause of female education never lost
the impulse that it received that day.
Instead of the valedictory composed for this anniversary, is here
subjoined the greater part of the one prepared by Sanum, for a like
occasion, because it takes a wider range, and is richer in its
historical allusions:--
"Now that another year is closed, and we are ready to leave each
other in peace, it is fitting to review the past, that together we
may praise the sweet Keeper of Israel for the blessings he has
poured upon our heads. We fear to try to recount them all, lest we
tempt the Lord; so we will speak of but a few.
"Let us renew the wings of our loving thoughts, send them to the
years that are past, and see where rests the dust of some of the
dear teachers of this school.
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