[Her address to the native teachers, bishops, &c., is omitted.]
"Dear parents, we rejoice exceedingly to see you here, looking on us
with eyes of love. No words can express what you have done for us,
especially in sending us here to learn of Jesus. We trust that it
has been, or shall be, a blessing to you also. It is our hope that
you will be willing to send your daughters to distant places, to
make known eternal life. If you do, great will be your reward from
the Lord.
"And now, sweet sisters, another year have we sat under our own vine
and fig tree unmolested. We have tasted the honey and milk of the
blessed land, and drank of the waters from the Rock. But now the
time has come to leave these bowers of knowledge, but not the
lessons here learned, nor the counsels of our teachers, nor the
sweet whispers of the Holy Spirit.
"Dear sisters, let us bear forth with us the light-giving
countenance of the Saviour, which will scatter all the evil around
us as the light dispels the darkness: without this we cannot go.
Though separated in body, let us be united in fervent prayer. Let a
conscience made sensitive by grace be our abiding companion.
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