Is it
strange that, as the slips of paper fell at her feet, her heart was
moved?
But we cannot dwell longer on the prayer meeting. As many as twelve
said a few words, and more than that number led in prayer, during
the two hours they were together: from thence all repaired to the
dining room,--the three upper windows on the right of the engraving
belong to this,--where they did "eat their meat with gladness and
singleness of heart." Then it was announced that arrangements had
been made for class prayer meetings. It seemed to be just the thing
that all longed for, though none had spoken of it; and at once each
class went along the familiar passages to the room assigned it, and
the voice of prayer arose from nearly every apartment in the
building. The chapel bell rung, but it was unnoticed; and each
little company had to be separately summoned to church. There,
according to previous arrangement, Miss Fiske led each to a seat,
that the communicants might be together, and then herself sat down
behind them all. A glance revealed ninety-three sisters in Christ
before her; and as the services had not yet commenced, her thoughts
went back to the day when, asking concerning many of them, "Is this
one a Christian?" "or that one?" "or that other?" the answer came,
"You have no sister in Christ among them all!" No wonder she now
inwardly exclaimed, "What hath God wrought? The Lord hath done great
things for us, whereof we are glad.
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