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I said at once, 'I cannot leave my school. But he forthwith called Sanum, Sarah, and Moressa, my oldest girls, and asked them if they did not love souls in Marbeeshoo well enough to take good care of school, and let me be absent till Tuesday.
I said, 'Moressa, forgive me. I have been an unfaithful shepherd. I have not once searched for you. I confess my faults. 'I have faults. I have been a wandering sheep, forsaking the fold. 'Have you kept up secret prayer during all these years? 'I have. I found that she had learned to read at home, and I gave her a Testament. I have a good hope for her; but how negligent I have been!
Three weeks afterwards, the Christians among them seemed more than usually earnest in prayer for the conversion of the impenitent, and at once the answer came. The first one awakened was Moressa, now the wife of Yakob, of Supergan, and then about fourteen years of age. She had been taken into the family of Mrs. Grant nine years before, and that of Mr. Stocking afterwards.
There was much confusion in the village, and they seemed like those who cried, 'Great is Diana of the Ephesians. One said, 'I wish neither Satan nor God, but only Mar Shimon. Once, when we were assembled with the women, and Moressa was speaking, a wicked man fired a pistol to frighten us.
In the village of Seir, the work was very general. In addition to the labors of the pious students in the Male Seminary there, Sanum and Moressa labored from house to house among the women. But hear their own account of what they did, in a letter to Miss Lovell's school at Constantinople; "What shall we tell you, beloved, of the great love God has shown to our school and people?
The reader, as well as they, will find relief from the companion picture by Moressa. Sanum's was an original conception of her own. The theme of this last was suggested by Miss Fiske, as a fitting counterpart to the preceding, but the treatment of it was left wholly with the writer. "While meditating on death, I fell into a sweet sleep, and dreamed a dream which rejoiced my spirit.
She wished I would talk to them together, that their path might be one. I told her I did not think it best that she should talk much to him, but be very quiet, pray for him, be obedient to him, and hope to win him by her chaste conversation coupled with fear. She received my words well. "February 28th. I talked with Moressa.
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