The children, too, were taught to sing.
Thus they labored till winter, when the school was put in charge of
the village school teachers. In the spring the pupils resumed the
work with undiminished zeal. Nor did they toil in vain, for the
attendance increased from about seventy to four hundred; and some of
the teachers testified that they spent there some of the most
delightful Sabbaths they ever knew. Yonan, who superintended the
school with Moses, had also a class of old women, that increased
from six to thirty-seven, whom he taught from the book, well known
to our Sabbath school children, "Line upon Line." His own account of
it is very interesting. He says," The women, especially the aged
among them, have a habit, when they meet, of engaging in
unprofitable conversation, and, both on the way to church and in it,
we could not stop it. Awakening sermons produced no impression; and
though they had heard preaching for fifteen years, they were still
very ignorant. But now what I teach them on one Sabbath I require
them to repeat the next; and so they are obliged to leave off their
gossip, and talk over what they have heard, that they may not forget
it.
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