The heart of the teacher grew
strong in the feeling that the mothers were wrestling with her. The
mother passed into an adjoining room to see her daughter; and a
missionary brother, who came in just then, could not restrain his
tears as he listened to her earnest intercessions, saying, "This is
more to me than any thing I have seen in Persia." After that year,
some parents, when they came to the Seminary, were never willing to
leave till they had prayed with their children. A father once wrote,
"Yesterday I invited some Christian friends to my house, and had
three prayers offered for the school; and while praying for you, we
felt our own sins very much, and cried to God to save us from their
power."
Nor were the pupils wanting in interest for their impenitent
parents. During the long vacation in 1850, Hanee, who used to spend
several hours a day in prayer for her mother, so pressed her with
entreaties to come to the Saviour, that one day she roughly replied,
"Enough! Enough! Stop your praying and weeping for me: you will weep
yourself blind." "O mother," was the beautiful reply, "it seems as
though I would gladly become blind, if thereby you might be brought
to Jesus.
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