Let me ask you if you are sure that you are on the Rock
Christ Jesus." A tender prayer followed, the burden of which was,
"Search us, O Lord, and try us, and see if there be any wicked way
in us, and lead us in the way everlasting."
The next to speak was one of the early pupils, who had come many
miles that day to be present. She said, "I could think but one
thought all the way as I came, and that was, 'Freely ye have
received, freely give.' We have certainly received freely: have we
given any thing? Can we not do something for souls? I fear the Lord
Jesus is not pleased with us."
They were then asked if they were ready to engage in direct labors
for souls, to search them out, and by conversation and prayer seek
to lead them to Christ. Many pledged themselves to the work, and
engaged to bring the names of those for whom, they had labored to
the next communion, that all together might intercede in their
behalf to God. Before that time arrived, Miss Fiske left for
America; but the first letter she opened, out of a large parcel that
awaited her in Boston, was one containing the names of those with
whom her pupils had labored and prayed in distant Persia.
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