Though you are absent, we know well that you carry every one of your
flock in the arms of love to Him who can do all things, whether you
are far away or near to us. The girls send up many petitions for
Harriette. We fear much when we recall your former going to Seir.
How glad should we be to hear of indications that she will recover.
Peace and love to Mrs. Stoddard.
Your affectionate
HOSHEBO.
More than a year after this, Miss Fiske left Oroomiah, and at
Salmas, on her way home, met her dear pupil Sanum, the wife of
Joseph. Having no other place for devotion, they retired together to
an orchard for the parting prayer. In a subsequent letter, Sanum
thus beautifully alludes to it:--
"O, the remembrance of that bitter separation! and of those prayers,
when the green grass was watered with our tears! How could I have
borne it, but for the recollection of Him who prayed and wept in the
garden of Gethsemane, and whose kneeling upon the tender grass was
for the comfort of our souls!"
The gratitude of the pupils to their teacher extended also to her
aged mother. Seldom have they written a letter to Miss Fiske, in
America, without its message of kind remembrance to the parent who
gave up her daughter, as Hannah gave up Samuel, to be the Lord's;
and several wrote letters to her separately.
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