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helping. We believe that many heard the gospel for the first, time and that ar good number had their eyes opened. The next day people began to come early, apd all day long we gave ourselves for the people, not stopping for dinner. Only eternity will prove what the results were. After we had been tlj,ere but a short time the fathers of the four girls gathered together and we had a meeting with them; told them what was expected of them, and they agreed to send their girls back with us. You will never know what it means to get girls for the school until you really go after them. One hour they were going and the next they) were not; then if one was going to back out they all were not going. Then their heathen relations were beginning to tell all kinds' flf dreadful stories about the foreigner—that we were going to run off with them to U. S. A., cut out their hearts and use them, for medicine. They are to be pitied because Satan has blinded their eyes. Had planned to leave early Thursday, so on Wednesday, in the late afternoon, decided to. get the girls together and have them sleep at the Church, so that we could leave early. After much prayer, testings and trials of various kinds., managed to get three there. But when I went for the fourth she was no where to be found. She had no mother and was stay-: ing with heathen relations who did not wish her to go. So while we had the meeting in the afternoon they had taken her out to her grandmother in the country. Well, as her father is a Christian and wanted her in school we felt led to hunt her up. It was then already dark but nevertheless I sent to the oxen stables for my carter and told him the story and that I would apprecate it very much were he willing to assist in the matter. Taking one of the fathers and two Christian women we started out. The people told us where they had taken her but, alas, .it was not the truth, and when we reached the place, no girl. Then we went in the opposite direc tion ; did not know the road, so got side tracked twice; had to keep praying that
the carter would not get discouraged and give up; also asking God to help me find the girl. We could not have reached the place at a better time. They were all in bed but the grandmother, so she opened the door I made right for the room in the back as I felt she was there. The grandmother made one grab for my sleeve and I thought she was going to take it off. Well, we found the girl, had her put on her clothes and while she was doing that we( tried to tell them that their girl, was going to have it better and receive such care and treat ment as she never had at home. But it was all useless, her brother just screamed and yelled and for a time it seemed sure we were in a pit of, darkness. We soon got her off and were glad when we reached the church. I t .then was 9 p. m. How happy the girls were; they were offering lip con tinual praises. There was little or no sleeping that* night; at 3 a. m., they were up, but it was after S before the carter came around, and during that time the enemy had a good chance to work. Even at the v,ery last, one mother said, “let the girls who have faith go.” Told them that this could not be as they had promised that they were to go. Praise God for the way the pupil-teacher stood with me through the whole affair. The girls have been here a week novir and fit in very nicely. Since they h^ve left home the grandmother of one of the girls has beaten her older sis ter for letting her come. One has no idea what it means for one of these girls to come to school. The enemy is not willing to give them up or to have this terrible cus tom broken. The pupil-teacher is daily growing in grace and the knowledge of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, fie is teaching her. many new lessons. It just seems that every pain and ache she ever had has been visited upon her since coming here. When she left home ;her mother asked her what she was going to do when she reached here. She told her that she was going to trust Jesus. Now He is taking her at her word. At first she cried for her mother. After
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