While the devout ones engage in worship at one
end of the room, the rest, at the other end, talk, laugh, and
revile."
Yet, even in such households, grace reveals its divine power. We
find Yonan putting this question to a communicant: "Do you and M.
live pleasantly together?" M. was her sister-in-law, in a household
of more than thirty souls. "She is a little quick tempered," was the
reply; "but I try not to trouble her, and to have our love perfect
that we may be a good example to the rest." Yonan prayed with her,
and asked if he could do any thing for her relatives. "Dear brother
in Christ," she replied, "in the name of the Lord Jesus, our
precious Saviour, I beg you to pray with my husband: it maybe God
will bless him." "My sister, God will bless him: this your anguish
shall be turned into joy." "My own heart was moved," adds the
narrator. "I saw my own love very little, compared with hers, and
felt my unworthiness very much."
The change in their social condition was beautifully illustrated by
a little incident in the Seminary, in 1849. One of the older pupils
had been betrothed; but when the ring of betrothal was brought, to
be placed on her finger, she could not be found.
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