I asked
her, 'Did you ever do any thing for your little girl that you
remember now with gratitude?' 'Many times I carried her with me to
the stable, and knelt with her upon the straw in the manger, to ask
blessings on her.' 'Christ was in the manger, and perhaps there your
daughter was consecrated to him.'"
In another place, we find him asking Esli,--the wife of Joseph, of
whom he had just said, "Her little daughter has died recently, and
her heart is broken,"--"When your child died, did you weep and wail
as your people do?" and she answered, "No."
Nazloo, of Vizierawa, a pupil who hoped she took Christ for her
Saviour in 1849, and graduated in 1853, within less than a year
after her conversion was summoned to the death-bed of her uncle; and
scarcely had she returned to her studies before she was called to
the bedside of her father. For three days she watched with him
incessantly, by day and by night. Those who were present were
greatly moved by her tender care of him. During the whole of his
sickness, she never failed to improve every opportunity to point him
to Christ. Even to the last, she begged him to look to the Lamb of
God and live.
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