If Jeremiah were here, I think he
would say, 'How doth Miss Fiske's room sit solitary that was full of
people! How do the daughters of the Oroomiah schools mourn, and
their eyes run down with water, because Miss Fiske is far from
them?' These changes show us that this world is as down driven by
the wind. Perhaps you will reply, in your cheerful way, 'Do you feel
so? There is much that is pleasant in the world.' I know it; but our
school was always such a pleasant place to me. I was so happy in it
and its heavenly employments, that not even the death of friends
could destroy that joy. But now I seem overshadowed by dark clouds,
and sinking in deep mire. Yet I will try, in all this, to bow my
will to the holy will of Him who doeth all things well."
CHAPTER XX.
COMPOSITIONS.
THE FIELD OF CLOVES.--THE LOST SOUL.--THE SAVED SOUL.--HANNAH.
It was very important that the pupils should be able to express
their own thoughts, readily and correctly, with the pen, and
unwearied effort was devoted to this end; but for a long time they
seemed incapable of clothing an idea in words. The simplest sentence
was copied over and over without the change of a single word; and
even when it was expressed for them in other language, they only
repeated over that variation of the first.
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