" There was but one among the
ninety-three with whom she had not bowed the knee in prayer, and
that same evening, as she was devising methods to get her away from
the rest to her room alone, the Lord sent her, unexpectedly, to the
door; and with her also she enjoyed the privilege of personal
religious intercourse and prayer.
At the communion, when all stood up to enter into covenant with
thirty-nine new converts, six of them pupils of the Seminary, there
seemed a deeper meaning than ever before in engaging to be the
Lord's forever.
In Hanee we have seen the grace bestowed on one of the two whom Mar
Yohanan brought to form the nucleus of the school. The other was
Selby, of Gavalan, his own niece. She became hopefully pious in
1846, when hardly ten years of age. There were very few in whom her
teachers took such uniform delight, though they felt some anxiety
when she married Priest Kamo, of Marbeeshoo, a cousin of Mar
Shirnon--intelligent and influential, but unconverted. Yet she had
strong faith that he would become a Christian, and soon gained a
wonderful influence over him, without compromising in the least her
own religious principles.
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